Our Trip to Texas

Here are some pictures and captions of our road trip down to Texas. It ended up taking us two days instead of three because Adam wanted to drive the entire second day.

Day 1:

Rexburg to Longmont, Colorado

14 hours in the car

Teton/Jackson pass. Beautiful fall colors.

Teton/Jackson pass.
Right after the narrow mountain pass, the brake alarm went off.
After calling roadside assistance and determining that it was
just a faulty alarm, we decided to just put up with it the whole time.
It wasn't worth the delay.

Elizabeth with her soft blankie stuffed in her mouth.

South Wyoming - lots of cows, snow fences, and oil fields.

The view from north Colorado.
It was so beautiful here that we would have stayed for good,
except their winters are just like the ones in Rexburg. No sir!
We want that warm Texas weather!

I thought these mountains in Colorado were so pretty.
Red rock with the greenery on top.

We stopped in Longmont, Colorado instead of Denver. Elizabeth was thrilled

to go swimming in the hotel pool and stretch her legs! It felt so nice to stretch after
sitting all day and listening to that annoying "ding ding ding" of the brake alarm.

Day 2:
Longmont, CO to Melissa, TX
18 hours in the car

Southern Colorado, near the border. So flat that we could
see Kansas (the barely visible land in the distance)

This was all we could see for miles in Southern Colorado...
in all directions.

These windmills were all over the hills near the border between
Colorado and Oklahoma. The wind out there made me
remember why this is tornado country.

Now entering Texas!
We were getting worried because the terrain was still very barren.
As we got to Amarillo and Plano, everything became a LOT greener.

Home Sweet Home in Plano, Texas!
Very green. Low 90's weather. Friendly people, and
no more driving!!

We stayed with McIvers in Melissa until we
got all moved in to our new place.
We're 6 minutes from Adam's new work
and everything is CLOSE!