Memphis, 3/4/13

Graceland ...... What a fun place to explore for the day. We explored Elvis Presley's mansion, his cars, his planes and even his clothes. What a life he had. We both didn't realize that he and his parents and grandmother are buried on the property. His father got permission from the city to move his body for security reasons. His house was displayed how it was when he died, shaggy carpets and everything. What were people thinking back then. His cars were even cooler. After Graceland we drove into downtown Memphis where we took a tour of the Memphis Fire museum. We got to be kids for an hour. They had pretty much every toy fire truck possible on display.

We finally got on the road and ran into windshield wiper problems. Wouldn't had been an issue but it was raining. Every time we tied to use high speed we blew a fuse. We fixed the problem temperarly and got on our way to Florida to see family and finally get a shower (it's been 5 days) .... It's time to do laundry too :)

Dodge city, ks 4/3/13

We had a fun time in dodge city learning about Wyatt Earp. We had a great dinner at an original hotel/restaurant in Dodge City. We found ourselves sleeping at the Casino in Dodge. The next morning we did the boot hill museum which was pretty informational about living in Dodge City and the life of a cowboy. They had a replica of the town with real stores and had items to purchase from the era.
We left Dodge City and headed to Memphis, Tn. What a long drive we had in front of us. Chris started the drive in snow, I took over in Oklahoma city to a bad rain storm and Arkansas was a big blur. The bus did great in both and we pulled into Memphis Thursday early morning.

Breckenridge - US Olympic training center

It's been a fun 3 days - we haven't had a lot of down time besides sleeping, and Internet is spotty. I was able to download an app to make blogging easier from my phone. Where was this 3 years ago :)

Right now we are on our way to Memphis, TN with a stop in Oklahoma City, OK for dinner. It's gonna be a long day/night.

After vail we checked into our hotel for the which had a spa and was so needed after a day of skiing.

Breckenridge ski resort was amazing - we had a blast skiing the mountain from one side to the other .... I stopped during the day to take breaks while Chris played on the black diamond run's. Driving thru the Colorado Rocky Mountains are amazing the views are so pretty and I can't believe we were so high in elevation. We drove through the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnel which took us about 1 1/2 minutes to drive it.
We stopped in Denver for dinner and continued our way to Colorado Springs. Sleeping in the bus this trip has been different - it's been COLD ..... Driving the middle states in April, I didn't realize how much colder it would be than the boarder states 3 years ago.

Walmart parking lot was our home for the night in Colorado Springs. I didn't realize how big the city was. The US Olympic training center was fun to see where hopeful and current Olympians train. After the training center we went to the IAFF firefighter memorial. Last fall, Chris lost a friend from butte county and in September his name will be honored on the wall and we wanted to see where his name would go. It's a pretty emotional site to see so many firefighter names up on the wall.

During the drive to dodge city, ks we realized we lost another hour and are now in central time zone. We just got into Memphis and am calling it a night ... Hopefully tomorrow il get to write about dodge city :)

Vail, co - Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone!!! Chris and I had a great day on the mountain in vail, co. We skied the whole mountain (well the front side). It's huge !!! We checked into our hotel for the night and went straight to the hot tub... It was needed. Was able to do some laundry during dinner and now were enjoying the rest of the night ... Making it an early night because we are skiing Breckenridge in the morning ... It's gonna be a very long day with sore muscles and dealing with our sunburns, but it's all worth it ....

Arches 3/30/13

What a great day we had in Arches National park. We did the Double O arch hike, which was about a 4 mile hike up and down rocks. It was a really nice hot day which lead to getting a really bad horrible sunburn. We didn't want to put on sunscreen on because we just had shower... Lesson learned....