Edge of New Mexico...

Oh my stars, I forgot... that is what I get for posting when I am really tired. We also had an opportunity to see our dear freinds Cindy and Neil Klein and their son Evan. We get to see them every 5-8 years so this was cool. They have the neatest new ministry they and their church which meets in a Grange hall are starting. Rather than using their building fund for a building they bought an airplane. With it they will do cremation ash sprinkling to support the ministry and angel flights for their ministry. This is sooooo cool. Check it out. www.thefoundrycommunity.com Click on foundry flights.

Sooooo, here we are in Trinadad, CO, just across the border from New Mexico.

so, what do you think? Brains of the earth
poking through the surface?

Let me tell you, we saw some absolutely awesome scenery the past 2 days coming through Utah and Colorado on 70 but we are so done with twisty windy crazy, up hill and down hill, oh my heavens they have the speed limit WAY too fast for these roads and mountain passes. The weirdest thing was going straight through a mountain today, not the edge of it, through the middle of it, in one side, crazy 6% down grade all the way through the mountain and out the other side. That may be normal for people from the west side of Denver but we thought it was weird. We have also been in lots of rain and heavy lightening storms for two days. We were expecting to roast all the way across the US so I am not complaining. :-) We are trying really hard to bring the rain with us to Longview.

So, back to our stories. We left my brothers house on Monday morning and headed toward La Grande. We were suppose to visit with Cheryl Lawson, a friend who used to live with us along with her husband Tom, but Cheryl had the flu, (poor thing) so we kept on going. In all my years of living in Oregon I have never stopped at Multnoma Falls, so we did.


Of course Brenna and I climbed around the falls while Joe sat in the car. He is such a good sport about that.




This is a picture of the trail up to the falls. This is what woods are "supposed to look like" I think. I do like the foliage in Longview but this is just home to me.

We found a tree that tried to eat Brenna :-)

And this is a view of the Columbia River from up toward the falls. Okay, you can't see the river much but it sure is pretty I think. 

After this we stopped at the Bonniville Dam and looked around the tourist thingy for a while. They do have a nice little viewing thing with underground view ports of the fish ladders and everything. Unfortunately the fish are not running but it was still cool. this is the dam part.

After we got past the pretty mountian part of the Columbia River Gorge it looked pretty weird.

We were excited though to see miles and miles of wind turbines. :-). If you can't see the wind turbines you can click on the picture and it will open bigger.

In La Grande we visited with our supporter Linda Girrard. She has had a hard last couple of years so this was a really nice visit.

We had a miserable night in the hotel in La Grande. The air conditioner was buried behind the bed so I froze my but while Joe and Brenna roasted. Ah well, was the only really bad hotel night we have had.





The next morning we headed out across Oregon and a great deal of Idaho and into Utah. It had some pretty scenery but mostly it was long dirty dirty dirty miles, complete with dust storms and tumble weed attacks. Joe had a lot of chest pains that day so we stopped early, not far out of Salt Lake City. The next day we finished off Salt Lake City and went south of their and onto Interstate 70. Now that is a beautiful, beyond belief ride. Some of it so pretty we just kept saying OH OH OH OH. I will talk about that tomorrow, Same place, same channel.

Love

Teri