Sunday, July 26, 2009

Day 41: Still in Aurora, CO

Today started bright and early with a trip to take Pickle and Dave to the airport. The Denver airport has a particular sculpture out front.

Blue Mustang is a scary sculpture. The eyes glow red at night. Worst of all, a section of the statue fell on the sculptor, Luis Jimenez, killing him.

When we got back to Pickle's, Jillian got to work blogging on Cooper. I took advantage of Dave and Pickle's computer to do some route planning.

We may have also played some Wii Fit.

We were discovering a problem. I needed to return to school on August 24th, less than a month away. We still had 2000 miles to go. We weren't sure that was possible, especially if we had serious mechanical problems again. We spent a long time down in the basement, debating if we could do this at all.

We may have also watched some Chuck.

We finished the day not sure. But I did map the route north in to Wyoming. Right now the plan is to go to Cheyanne, head west to Rawlins, and follow the ACA route the rest of the way. We're really looking forward to two things. First, the ride along the Pacific Coast. Beautiful ocean to our West, with regular little towns on the route. We're also very much looking forward to the ride along the river in Idaho. We'd lose almost 3000 feet in just over 100 miles.

It was a little cold in Pickle's basement, so we rooted around for some blankets. We found Snuggies! Once we had initiated ourselves into the Cult of the Snuggie, we let Don out for a little while.

Don, of course pooped on everything.

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