Moving right along

We had a fun night our last night in Gladstone, Michigan. The last of the group went out for a nice dinner and then sat around the campground talking about the rally and reading hilarious stories from "Da Yooper" Magazine!  I took these pictures of the bay we are camped on. The bay opens into Lake Superior.

The camper next to us had these two little babies!  They are four years old and Buster looks a lot like Max. As we were leaving I decided to give them the outdoor bed Max used to sit on when we sat outside.  They seemed to like it!  They were very cute and lovable and had very nice parents!

Monday morning we drove down to Union, Illinois which is a little north and west of Chicago.  I used to work with Donna Rasmussen at David Hawkins, CPA office.  We worked together for 8 years. I watched their oldest daughter, Karly, be born.  She is now a beautiful young lady!  Donna and Raz also have Jake and Holly and we got to spend time with all of them.  We went to breakfast with Raz and then had the afternoon and dinner with Donna and the kids!  It was a lot of fun remembering all the crazy things Donna and I (mostly Donna) did.

I'm waiting for some pictures Donna took but here are a couple I took!

We had a good visit and then on Wednesday we headed west. We spent the next night in Iowa.  We drove through a horrible storm.  I was driving and it started raining really hard with thunder and lightning, but the really scary thing was the side wind. When we watched the news they were talking about 70 mph gusts!  Even the semi's were driving about 20 mph. I was really glad when we got out of the rain and to the campground. We had a little pond and cornfield behind us, very relaxing and very happy the storm was in our rear view mirror also!

Thursday night we were camped in Kearney, Nebraska near the Great Platte River Road Archway. I took a picture from quite a distance so it isn't very clear but it was really cool looking when we went under it.  It spanned the entire freeway and has a museum.  They tell you about the Pony Express, Stagecoach line, Iron Horse and the stampeding buffalo that went through the area!

After a very long drive yesterday, almost entirely done by Teddy, we are in Woodland Park, Colorado.  It was a windy road up to the 8500 feet where we are camped but it's in some nice pine trees and the town looks pretty cute!  We will go exploring as soon as I finish the blog!

Exploring a new area..."Ain't Life Grand!"