Are we there yet?

August 8, 2014

Done with our longest driving day of the trip.  We started in Colorado Springs this morning and made it into Eagle Mountain, Utah at about 9:40 tonight.  We stopped in Denver to visit Grandma Peggy, the grandmother of our good friend Michelle.  She’s an amazing, energetic great-grandmother that I met on a previous trip to Denver.  Grandma Peggy made such an impression on me that I wanted my family to meet her.  She was great, and I’m so glad we had the opportunity to visit with her for a bit. 

We hit some slow traffic around Denver because of a few accidents and a little further down the road because of road construction.  When we were in Nantucket, Becky's cousin Peter told us that when he was a kid, he used to complain, "Are we still in Connecticut?" when driving from New York to Massachusetts. Try Wyoming - and we still have Nevada to come.  I can nod off for a minute while driving and be through Connecticut before waking up.  We reached our friends Adam and Marie’s house a little later than we had planned, but their kids were still awake and ready to wrestle when we got here.  They have a four-month-old, Trevor, who we hadn’t met yet (he wasn’t up for wrestling though) so we got to hold the baby, and we all stayed up visiting for a while.  We’re not home yet, but it’s nice to at least be in familiar territory.