Day 47 - June 25

A good portion of the day was the drive from Golden, CO to Grand Junction, CO. The first half of the trip cover a lot of climbing so needles to say it was much slower than our GPS was predicting. In addition to the climb to nearly 10,000 feet was the fact that much of Colorado is undergoing summer road repairs and we were down to single lanes with the usual amounts of gutter snipes that you would like to shove off the edge of the road.

Jon, we saw many old mining operations and know that you would loved to have been able to explore.

We got to Grand Junction and spent a nice evening with our friends the Ledeburs and enjoyed a great steak dinner. We remember when they told us that they were leaving Huntington Beach and we couldn't believe it. It wasn't all that many years later that we did the same thing and our other friends could believe that we were moving away. Now Grants Pass is so much our home that we have trouble remembering what life in Huntington Beach was like.