Day 3 (9/28/2010): Colorado at last!

I'll be the first to say it, Day 3 kinda sucked. We drove most of the day. I felt so bad for the dogs at the end of the night. Our first plan was to stop right before getting into Colorado, but then we changed our plan and decided to stop at a small town called TRINIDAD (yes, Kate Nothnagel, it was called Trinidad) which was just over the border.

This was also the first day we got off the main highway. Our directions took us on some back highway routes that were only two lane but with a speed limit of 70 miles an hour through Texas. Do you remember the scene in Cars when Lighting McQueen gets lost in the middle of the night and tried to find Mac? He ends up on a country highway where he can see Semi's from miles away... that's what it looked like. That and cows, lots and lots of cows. 

When we finally arrived in Trinidad, well after sundown, we were both exhausted and ready to be done. Unfortunately for us, the only dog friendly hotel in town was another Best Western and it was all sorts of ghetto. We begrudgingly decided to just push on to Denver, another 2 hours away. There we crashed with Becca and very deservingly, slept in. Thank you Becca for putting us up for the night!

Day 3 and the majority of our driving was finally complete. We were now 2 hours behind the east coast and the Colorado mountains were in sight.

-Liz