Current Elevation 4,984 Feet

Today was day one of our road trip to Portland. So, this is part one of our three part series detailing our trip.

We started out early this morning packing what we could into our little Hyundai, which required Peter to stuff whatever he could into every nook and cranny in the trunk. So that along with taking care of last minute details set us back about an hour and a half. But we would not be discouraged. The lack of traffic made it easy to get out of Oklahoma City. It turns out there is nothing too exciting on the north end of Oklahoma so I occupied myself taking pictures.

We crossed the Kansas border an hour and forty minutes after leaving home. Unfortunately, Kansas wasn't any more exciting than Oklahoma (sorry Kodi). Although we did see a wind farm, how fitting we thought. The wind mills are huge and turn a lot slower than I would have thought. Once again Peter has a cooler job than me, darn it.

We also saw a huge grain factory, which I'm assuming is the Ft. Knox of Grain. Unfortunately we were on a tight schedule so there was no time for stopping to see vaults of wheat, may be next time.

We saw several farms that reminded me of Dorothy's farm from the Wizard of OZ, which lead to a somewhat in depth conversation about the symbolism in the Wizard of Oz. Things really started to liven up in western Kansas when we hit the edge of some thunderstorms. Luckily we just had some rain and no hail or high winds.

Rain greeted us again as we reached Colorado. Total travel time at this point-seven hours. When we started out for the day Peter was pretty excited about Colorado and kept saying "I think you are going to like Colorado". Well, once we got out of the rain I finally got to see Colorado-like Kansas only browner. I was not a big fan and made sure Peter knew this. We drove and drove and no sign of mountains, I began to think the mountains were all a fraud and made sure Peter knew I felt this way. Finally, after a little over two hours of driving we spotted mountains at 6:26pm MDT and trust me they are not a fraud. We drove through Denver (the mile high city), someday we will have to come back for a visit. After eleven hours of driving we arrived at our stop for day one - Ft. Collins. We have a nice view of the mountains from our window.

Max is doing very well, which is to be expected since he such a world traveler.

Tomorrow Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho (no, you-da-ho, get it?). Stay tuned for more adventures from our road trip.