I'm home, but it feels like part of me is still back in the mountains somewhere...

What a trip! It was absolutely gorgeous out in the mountains, we hit 3 states other than our own at some point. Only 3 of the 5 of us were carsick at some point. Average sleep per night=4 hours. Awesome hotel "suite" to keep the kids entertained in. Mountain views everywhere you look. One rock, lots of little girl souvenirs later and more gas than I think I have put in the Suburban to date and we're home. I still have piles of laundry in the basement, mostly because I've been too tired to think about all the trips up and down the stairs...thank you lack of sleep! 

Morale of the story...I'd be in the first Suburban going that way to do it all over again. I don't know why people move out of the mountains. Everywhere you look is green and gorgeous. The air smells of nothing but clean and trees. The water, although rushing, is crystal clear. There are more animals than humans in most places...and everyone you meet is kind. Yeah, absolute perfection. Then there's the roads. Pavement...perfect, they're kept up, it's the path you follow that's the problem. I'm happy to admit the windey little road through the bottom of some very popular mountains had me seeing more than one yellow line, and I was probably the shade of one of the trees we kept passing. A 40-mile trip took us almost 3 hours if that gives you a hint. You no more than got up to 50mph and were slowing back down for 3-4 curves back to back...uggh! I'm getting woozy just thinking about it!

Ok, so to the pictures, these are from my phone cause I didn't feel like going through the hundreds on my camera yet!

Name those beautiful peaks! We could see them from Laramie and I wanted to get to them so bad I bribed both drivers to keep going a particular direction...

And this one is past those beautiful peaks. There are very few places you'll find ice covered lakes and streams at the end of June, and we just happened to find one of them. I hardly took my eyes off the outside because every turn you went around it got more beautiful. I could live there easy...the problem would be the lack of every modern convenience you can think of!

Thank you Colorado for the amazing pictures!