Dennis Dixon is heading West!: August 2017 - Day 8 (north into Wyoming)

Friday, August 11, 2017

August 2017 - Day 8 (north into Wyoming)

Friday, August 11, 2017 - Colorado to Wyoming - 356 miles altogether:

8am - out of town! There is fog in the mountains (43º F again at 6am), and the rivers are ROARING on 34 heading east:

and it's a beautiful day when you break out of the canyons:

There is some wonderful country out here:

And then it was time to go back up into the mountains; I wanted to keep off the Interstates, and drive through the mountains on CO-14 - IT IS MY NEW FAVORITE ROAD! Stevens Gulch Campground is on CO-14 right alongside the Cache la Poudre River:

I got to take a "Fit selfie":

From one spot, looking upstream:

and then looking downstream:

On these type of roads, I drive my own speed (about 40 in a 45 mph zone), and just pull over when someone wants to pass.

Having lost the one in New Hampshire, it was fun seeing an "Old Man of the Mountain" out here!

The country gets more intense as you go up CO-14:

And then you break out into the High Country:

Beautiful view of the Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge:

And then into Wyoming!

It is hard to believe that the "spaces" could get anymore "wide open"!!:

Up onto I-80, and the west to Green River, where Wendy and I stayed at the beginning of last October:

Maybe not the "best Super 8", but just maybe the one with the best location!

Dinner at the same diner we went to last year; and I got a free pair of "Eclipse glasses" at the Visitor Center because I left my pair back home. Thank you God for this wonderful day!

"First Music" was - yesterday's recording from the Thursday Morning Mens Breakfast (in Boston):
David Franks - Revelation 8: The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer (link to Teachings 2017)

a choirmaster coached his choir to "Listen harder than you sing."

Terry Tempest Williams The Hour of Land 4/9, 2016:

It is a collection of very nicely written stories of some of our National Parks - both personal stories, and historical/scientific background. I enjoyed it (well, at least the first-through-fourth-cds-of-9).

a lovely quote from this section of the book:
As Carl Wilkens writes, "When we make something with our hands, it changes the way we feel, which changes the way we think, which changes the way we act."

Then I had 2 hours of quiet while driving up CO-14.

Additional Music for today was albums from my orange nano:

Grateful Dead - American Beauty, 1970