We ever so slowly packed the car this morning. We were not in a rush by any stretch of the imagination.
At about 10 we were all packed and showered and ready to go. I took this opportunity to take some photos of the house since it was finally clean again. This was the $1M, 3 bedroom 2 and 1/2 bath house we stayed in. The website said it best, "all the windows in the house were specifically positioned to capture the mountain splendor."
This is the front deck with a view of the master bedroom deck
Mountain through the windows.
Dining Room
Deck access from dining room
Master Bedroom with deck access
Master bathroom with deck access (same deck)
Whirlpool tub and tiled/glass shower. It was also a steam shower.
Love this master bedroom closet. I want shelves like this in my home.
One of the other bedrooms. This is the one Becca stayed in.
The other bedroom.
2nd full bath upstairs.
View of kitchen from dinning room.
View of kitchen from the front windows looking towards the dining room and living room.
The hot tub where we soaked our weary bones.
Front windows.
Side deck. Those windows were the windows in the living room.
Side of house.
A couple family portraits.
A couple of "Just Married" photos.
Aaannndd one last one.
Colorado must have been sad that we were leaving, it started crying on us...or raining, whatever you want to call it. We went to town for a little bit of last minute shopping and to say goodbye to Breckenridge one last time. We stocked up on munchies and a couple Life is Good items and set off around 12:30.
I kept the camera handy for a while, trying to get some photos on the road as we were leaving because there are some really neat sights up to New Mexico. Once you pass New Mexico though it gets pretty boring.
The continental divide.
Some pretty Aspens somewhere near the end of Colorado.
This is just for you Kate Nothnagel...See we went to Trinidad! We didn't see you though so we just kept going.
This is getting closer to New Mexico where all the mountain turn onto the volcanos and the plateaus.
This huge fin looking thing is actually a blade for a wind turbine. We passed 3 of these, we never did see the base.
Not much to say about this, just thought it was a cool view,
We drove for about 10 hours this day, we were heading for Wichita Falls TX. About 45 mins outside of Wichita Falls, I got my first speeding ticket ever. I had a squeaky clean record and we even dropped the Honeymoon card on the $*@# officer and yet he was STILL not lenient. In TX they like to have two separate speed limits for the same road. A daytime limit and a night time limit. I was abiding by the daytime limit because I am actually a capable driver. He didn't seem to think this was acceptable or he just really wanted to pin an out of state driver. Whatever the case, I'm going to write "Thanks for the awesome Honeymoon gift!" in the memo of the check I write. When we finally reached Wichita Falls, TX we got lost trying to find the Candlewood Suites that we had a reservation at. Apparently the Candlewood Suites is on one road while the GPS thinks its on another. That was not enjoyable. When we finally found the hotel, we collapsed. Besides not having a continental breakfast I really enjoyed that hotel. It was definitely my favorite from the trip.
Day 12...
Our goal for the end of the day was to be in Meridian Mississippi with Steven's parents. We had a little under 600 miles to travel so we set off earlier than we had the day before.
Throughout this trip we had been listening to a book on CD on and off and we were near the end on this day. We were listening to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and it had gotten really interesting and so I volunteered to drive the first leg so we could finish it (Steven prefers music CD's when he's driving). Now I'm eager to either read or listen to the sequel! It was really good! I think this was the first book I've read/listened to that is not a classic in a long time. It was definitely easier to understand and become enthralled in than The Last of the Mohicans.
Besides a couple brush fires, not much exciting happened on this drive. We finished the book and switched around half way so Steven could drive. We made it to Meridian at around 7:45 or 8. We were graciously greeted with a hot dinner ready for us, what a treat from fast food! The dogs were really happy to be done with driving for a day as well.
We finally had the Mead that Matt had brewed for us as our dinner beverage. That was very yummy! It was almost like a dessert wine but sparkly and beer like. I hope he has more.
After another long day of driving we were happy to go to bed.
-Liz
Beautiful cabin and views! We might think about moving out there with you guys!!
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