Our trip to Cooke City Montana was incredible! It kicked my butt and it literally took my breath away. I learned A LOT while I was out there. The biggest lesson is I need to lose this extra weight and get some real muscle! I was very disappointed in my lack of physical ability. The desire and want is there, but I physically could not do what I wanted. I know if I was physically fit the asthma would not have been an issue either. I can’t wait to go back!! In the meantime – I kick the weight loss and strength training in the butt!!
Departure time: Saturday December 16th – 4:30 PM.
At about 9:00 PM in the middle of no where, I realized I had forgotten my asthma medication. We’d have to wait til we got to Billings Montana to take care of it. How dumb was that – the only thing the doc said was make sure you take your meds with you! DOH!
At about 1:30 AM on Sunday, all of us were snoozing – except Jim, he was driving. All of the sudden I don’t hear the hum of the engine, but we are still moving – I ask Jim “what’s wrong!” Jim says “I just ran out of fuel!” YEP – mile marker 17 on I-94 West Bound, 17 miles from Beach North Dakota and about 35 miles past Dickenson North Dakota. Why didn’t he stop in Dickenson, dunno. Thank goodness Doug and DeAnn have AAA. 2 hours later AAA showed up with 5 gallons of Diesel fuel – just enough to get us to the Flying J truck stop in Beach North Dakota. Did I ever tell you Jim was a professional truck driver for over 10 years? 2.5 hour delay.
Without further incident, we arrive in Billings Montana; we eat breakfast and locate a pharmacy to get my asthma medication. 2 hour delay.
Back on the road – heading to Laurel where we drop off the interstate onto the highways that take us to Chief Joseph Highway. We make our last stop for fuel at the Mavrick – GREAT hot chocolate!
We finally arrive to Chief Joseph Highway - in other words, the GOAT TRAIL through the mountains! Max speed 20 MPH due to the ice and snow pack on the road. It was BEAUTIFUL!! The sun was shining, the sky was clear blue! It was BREATH TAKING! Lots of deer playing on the sides of the roads – they would watch us drive past, almost like they were saying hi and drive careful! AMAZING!! 3 hours drive time to go 62 miles.
FINALLY we reach the parking lot! Sunday afternoon around 2:00 PM. The parking lots were loaded with trucks and sleds! We quickly unload the sleds, load our gear up on the sleds and take off for Cooke City. Pictures – I totally forgot to get my camera out of the bag before I packed it on my sled! DOH!
We arrive at Antlers, they are not ready for us. The cabins we reserved, we don’t get. Doug and DeAnn get a cabin that smells like a backed up sewer. They move to a different one that has two queen beds and is toasty warm. Jim and I get this little tiny cabin that is pretty cold when we go in. It has one full bed and a twin bunk bed. We unload our gear, change to riding gear and hit the trails. No time to worry about our accommodations – it will be dark soon.
Again, first time out, we forget the camera!<font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font> still in the bag! AND Jim forgot his disposable cameras in the truck. Grrrrrrr!
We go out on the first trail, no clue where it was. We end up at what DeAnn and I called Death Valley. Jim goes to the edge of the slope and starts down – he stops and motions to me to come over. I get to the edge and about peed my pants! It’s straight down! AND it goes WAY WAY DOWN! NO WAY am I going down, I shake my head and Jim motions to me to get down here now. So I slowly slide down the slope behind him. Scared the CRAP out of me! Doug and DeAnn follow. At the bottom DeAnn and I are thinking the same thing, sure hope we don’t have to go back that way!
We run around in the valley, the snow is soooooooooo deep! I’ve never been in snow that deep on my sled before. I try some of the things that Jim showed me, it was very hard. It kicked my butt! We run up and down these great hills. Jim and Doug are jumping and flying around. I can’t stop gazing at the beauty around me! We also come up on a bunch of other guys and watch them high mark and jump. It was amazing.
Time is getting away from us, we can’t be out here after dark, and we head back the way we came. We end up at the foot of Death Valley – the slope we slid down earlier. Jim says he wants to run my sled up and see if it makes it. He buzzes up there, my sled struggles, but makes it to the top. He comes back down and tells me to take his sled up. I froze. I was scared to death, I wanted so bad to accomplish something while we were there. On the other hand, I had no clue how to accomplish it. Jim tried to explain to me what to do and when to break left and when to break right. I looked at him like he was nuts. I decided I wasn’t going to do it. NO FREAKING WAY am I going up that mountain side!
Jim tells me I have a choice, get up the hill on my own or he takes me up on his sled. Both are very dangerous. In the meantime, Doug and DeAnn are having their own debate. DeAnn and I are scared to death. The fear was over whelming.
Jim and I get on his sled and he tells me to lean as far forward as I can and to hang on. He pins it, we start to climb and all I remember is staring straight ahead and screaming! The sled comes up off its skies; it feels like it’s going to flip. I lean forward more and apparently when I did that I accidentally hit the kill switch, Jim recovers quickly – not sure how he did it, but FINALLY we are at the top. I can’t breath – I dig through my pockets for my inhaler. THANK GOD I remembered to put it in my jacket! There are a group of guys watching this. One guy gives Jim a ride down, he’s going down to get my sled. Thank Goodness they were there, they were a great help to us that afternoon.
In the meantime, Doug has convinced DeAnn to take a try at it. She gets ½ of the way up and her sled tips and she falls off. She’s holding the sled up with her legs, like doing a leg press with her sled!!! She’s not sure what happened, but the next thing she knew she was sliding down on her butt and Jim was on her sled taking it back down. Since I wasn’t there, I have no clue what went down, but DeAnn was not happy. Jim brought her up on his sled like he did for me and one of the guys ran him back down to retrieve the rest of the sleds.
Finally when we were all at the top, we headed back to the lodge. No more time to ride, it was getting dark.
We get back to our cabin – it was cold as ice in there. I crank the heat up and take my gear off to get ready for dinner. Doug and DeAnn are next door getting ready for dinner. Their cabin was toasty warm.
We ate dinner at the Soda Butte – great great food! Now all we want to do is get in the hot tub. We check back at the desk at Antlers, “where’s the hot tub you guys bragged about” they tell us it’s not operational. Great, after all that work on the sleds and no hot tub. I can’t figure out why it’s not operational, they have guests who want to use it. Don’t have the energy to argue.
Back to the cabin – still freezing cold in there, but we were only gone a couple hours, it just hasn’t had time to warm up. Jim and I bundle up and snuggle under the covers. Its horrible cold but we finally fall asleep. I wake up several times in the night to warm my hands over the heat register. There is a little bit of heat coming out, but it’s not warming up the cabin. Around 2:30 AM Jim wakes up his feet are freezing. He gets dressed and says he’s going to the office. I tell him if they can’t get this fixed we are moving to the Super 8! Jim went to the office, he bangs on the doors and no one answers. He walks over to the Super 8 and the gal gives us a room for the rest of our stay and only charges us for one night. THANK GOD! We immediately move over there and rejoice in the heat! Even the floors are heated! It’s 4:30 AM and we finally have heat, finally time to sleep! We have to go back to Antlers in the morning and tell them we want a refund.
The next morning the sun is shining and it’s beautiful out there! We quickly eat breakfast and are ready to hit the snow! While we are getting ready to ride we hear about a man who was killed in an avalanche the days before. His two sons were with him, age 13 and 15. He was stuck on the slope; someone high marked above him and triggered the slide. He was buried under 7 feet of snow for 18 mins. When they dug him out he was not breathing and they could not revive him. I pray for their family!
We stop at Antlers to tell them we moved to the Super 8 due to the lack of heat in our cabin. They tell us they will not give us a refund because we didn’t come to them for help. But she said to come back later and talk with her husband to see what he says. Makes me a bit mad – we made our reservations for a specific cabin and we get a different one, there is no heat, the hot tub is not operational and their restaurant is not open! And they say we won’t be getting a refund.
Off we go. I cannot tell you how beautiful it is. I can’t figure out a way to express it either. It was so sunny and the skies were so blue. Every where you looked it was more beautiful than what you just looked at. Amazing.
I saw an avalanche! I got a picture of it. We were far enough away, but you could see where the break was and the slide!
I am not sure which trail we went out on, but we ended up at Round Lake and played in the deep powder. It was so much fun trying to make my sled do what I wanted. My sled has a mind of its own – we are gonna have to come to some kind of understanding soon!! Jim and Doug were ripping it up all over the place. I tried a few side hilling stunts, not pretty, but fun! Tried a jump, didn’t turn out to be a jump, more like a flop. It was so much fun! We followed some tracks that dumped into a beautiful valley and we played some more. We ended up on a one-way narrow trail. I hoped we didn’t run into any oncoming traffic! That too dumped into a really fun play area! We found some fun hills to climb and we found some great powder to buzz through.
Jim and Doug decided to do some climbing and said they would be just over there, they said to play in the powder. So I decided to find a spot and do some figure 8’s like Jim said to do. While doing that, I got stuck. BIG TIME STUCK. I was trying to make a left turn, my sled tipped to the right (no clue how that happened!) and I was going to stand on the left rail like Jim told me to, I didn’t move to the left rail fast enough and got the sled stuck tipped up on its right side. I sat on the edge of my sled and waved until the boys saw me. They made their way back to me. Jim tried to get my sled out and it went deeper into the snow. That’s we found that we were on a lake and the water was COLD! My sled was in the water, I doubt we broke through the ice, but there was water under the snow!
Pictures of the stuck? – Nope. No pictures. Sorry. I was so worried that Jim and Doug were going to take a swim I didn’t even think of taking pictures. I did get one of the ice packed into my track.
Jim had to take my sled around a bit to get the ice off. It was so heavy with the ice that I could not get the tail to come around. We decided to get off the ice and head over to another valley and play on some hills. Every turn put us into an even prettier place!
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We decide to head back to town for lunch. We run into a guy that lost his group and needs to get back to town so he rides with us to town. Of course, all the way back we can’t help but play around! We get back to town and the other guy finds his group and they invite Jim and Doug out for the afternoon. I curled up in bed and took a much needed nap in the nice warm Super 8!
Jim and Doug get back later and we head out for dinner. Again another great dinner at the Soda Butte! We stopped by Antlers again and the guy said yeah, the heater was plugged but it works now. We told him that we are already settled in the Super 8 and that we want a refund. He agrees to refund only one night. Jim doesn’t argue, but my intention is to get a full refund. I will address that to them when I call once we get home.
The next day we rode out to the trailer to get Jim’s 01 Renegade out. It needs to be broke in again since it has new pistons and rings.
We head back towards town and we take the LuLu Pass trail. We came up on these old cabins, took pictures to show the kids – told them that’s were we stayed! The trail up there was incredible. I stopped a lot to take pictures. There was a bit of a climb and I did great on it! Got to the top but then for what ever dumbass reason, I turned out a bit and ended up getting stuck on the down slope. OOOPS!
Doug and DeAnn had already gone to the top of the next climb. So, Jim told me to get on his 01 Renegade and take it up and he’d get me unstuck. That’s 2 stucks for me – 0 for everyone else. I ran the 01 up to the next plateau and it smelled funny. Turns out we smoked a brake thingy. He checked the little brake fluid box and there wasn’t any fluid in there. The smell was the brake fluid. So, we are up on the big hills and Jim has no breaks. Doug and DeAnn go further up and find what DeAnn and I called the Top of the World. I buzz up there. MY GOD it was beautiful! I wish we had found that spot the first day. It had every possible thing you could do on your sled down there. It was like a snowmobiling amusement park! It was so cool! We took tons of pictures, but none of us had the energy to go down there to play. AND, Jim didn’t have any brakes on his sled so he couldn’t go if he wanted. So, we had to go back down to the trailer and get the Summit back out.
We rode easy back out to the rode since Jim didn’t have any brakes, went back to the trailer and the rest of the trucks and trailers were gone. Ours was the only one left in the upper lot. There were maybe 6 or 8 in the lower lot. We changed out sleds and headed into town for lunch.
While at lunch we decided that we had better just pack it in and head home. We picked up our gear from the Super 8 and headed back to the trailer one last time.
After loading up, we head out on the Chief Joseph Highway and we see our first moose. He’s down on the side of the road – we literally back the truck up and find him again to take pictures!
We came across a caribou; he ran off and then stopped and looked back, almost like he was saying bye as we drove off.
We make our way back up and over the mountain on the ice and snow packed highway. We get back on I-90 East headed for home. Everyone was exhausted tired! Jim, Doug and DeAnn did all the driving; DeAnn pulled a 6 hour tour of driving and got the best gas mileage of the whole trip! We were home by noon on Wednesday, crawled into bed for a much needed nap!!
We had so much fun, what a GREAT Christmas Present I got from my Jimmy! LOVE YOU SWEETIE!
Hopefully I didn’t put anyone to sleep!
REV IT UP!
Jul
Departure time: Saturday December 16th – 4:30 PM.
At about 9:00 PM in the middle of no where, I realized I had forgotten my asthma medication. We’d have to wait til we got to Billings Montana to take care of it. How dumb was that – the only thing the doc said was make sure you take your meds with you! DOH!
At about 1:30 AM on Sunday, all of us were snoozing – except Jim, he was driving. All of the sudden I don’t hear the hum of the engine, but we are still moving – I ask Jim “what’s wrong!” Jim says “I just ran out of fuel!” YEP – mile marker 17 on I-94 West Bound, 17 miles from Beach North Dakota and about 35 miles past Dickenson North Dakota. Why didn’t he stop in Dickenson, dunno. Thank goodness Doug and DeAnn have AAA. 2 hours later AAA showed up with 5 gallons of Diesel fuel – just enough to get us to the Flying J truck stop in Beach North Dakota. Did I ever tell you Jim was a professional truck driver for over 10 years? 2.5 hour delay.
Without further incident, we arrive in Billings Montana; we eat breakfast and locate a pharmacy to get my asthma medication. 2 hour delay.
Back on the road – heading to Laurel where we drop off the interstate onto the highways that take us to Chief Joseph Highway. We make our last stop for fuel at the Mavrick – GREAT hot chocolate!
We finally arrive to Chief Joseph Highway - in other words, the GOAT TRAIL through the mountains! Max speed 20 MPH due to the ice and snow pack on the road. It was BEAUTIFUL!! The sun was shining, the sky was clear blue! It was BREATH TAKING! Lots of deer playing on the sides of the roads – they would watch us drive past, almost like they were saying hi and drive careful! AMAZING!! 3 hours drive time to go 62 miles.
FINALLY we reach the parking lot! Sunday afternoon around 2:00 PM. The parking lots were loaded with trucks and sleds! We quickly unload the sleds, load our gear up on the sleds and take off for Cooke City. Pictures – I totally forgot to get my camera out of the bag before I packed it on my sled! DOH!
We arrive at Antlers, they are not ready for us. The cabins we reserved, we don’t get. Doug and DeAnn get a cabin that smells like a backed up sewer. They move to a different one that has two queen beds and is toasty warm. Jim and I get this little tiny cabin that is pretty cold when we go in. It has one full bed and a twin bunk bed. We unload our gear, change to riding gear and hit the trails. No time to worry about our accommodations – it will be dark soon.
Again, first time out, we forget the camera!<font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font> still in the bag! AND Jim forgot his disposable cameras in the truck. Grrrrrrr!
We go out on the first trail, no clue where it was. We end up at what DeAnn and I called Death Valley. Jim goes to the edge of the slope and starts down – he stops and motions to me to come over. I get to the edge and about peed my pants! It’s straight down! AND it goes WAY WAY DOWN! NO WAY am I going down, I shake my head and Jim motions to me to get down here now. So I slowly slide down the slope behind him. Scared the CRAP out of me! Doug and DeAnn follow. At the bottom DeAnn and I are thinking the same thing, sure hope we don’t have to go back that way!
We run around in the valley, the snow is soooooooooo deep! I’ve never been in snow that deep on my sled before. I try some of the things that Jim showed me, it was very hard. It kicked my butt! We run up and down these great hills. Jim and Doug are jumping and flying around. I can’t stop gazing at the beauty around me! We also come up on a bunch of other guys and watch them high mark and jump. It was amazing.
Time is getting away from us, we can’t be out here after dark, and we head back the way we came. We end up at the foot of Death Valley – the slope we slid down earlier. Jim says he wants to run my sled up and see if it makes it. He buzzes up there, my sled struggles, but makes it to the top. He comes back down and tells me to take his sled up. I froze. I was scared to death, I wanted so bad to accomplish something while we were there. On the other hand, I had no clue how to accomplish it. Jim tried to explain to me what to do and when to break left and when to break right. I looked at him like he was nuts. I decided I wasn’t going to do it. NO FREAKING WAY am I going up that mountain side!
Jim tells me I have a choice, get up the hill on my own or he takes me up on his sled. Both are very dangerous. In the meantime, Doug and DeAnn are having their own debate. DeAnn and I are scared to death. The fear was over whelming.
Jim and I get on his sled and he tells me to lean as far forward as I can and to hang on. He pins it, we start to climb and all I remember is staring straight ahead and screaming! The sled comes up off its skies; it feels like it’s going to flip. I lean forward more and apparently when I did that I accidentally hit the kill switch, Jim recovers quickly – not sure how he did it, but FINALLY we are at the top. I can’t breath – I dig through my pockets for my inhaler. THANK GOD I remembered to put it in my jacket! There are a group of guys watching this. One guy gives Jim a ride down, he’s going down to get my sled. Thank Goodness they were there, they were a great help to us that afternoon.
In the meantime, Doug has convinced DeAnn to take a try at it. She gets ½ of the way up and her sled tips and she falls off. She’s holding the sled up with her legs, like doing a leg press with her sled!!! She’s not sure what happened, but the next thing she knew she was sliding down on her butt and Jim was on her sled taking it back down. Since I wasn’t there, I have no clue what went down, but DeAnn was not happy. Jim brought her up on his sled like he did for me and one of the guys ran him back down to retrieve the rest of the sleds.
Finally when we were all at the top, we headed back to the lodge. No more time to ride, it was getting dark.
We get back to our cabin – it was cold as ice in there. I crank the heat up and take my gear off to get ready for dinner. Doug and DeAnn are next door getting ready for dinner. Their cabin was toasty warm.
We ate dinner at the Soda Butte – great great food! Now all we want to do is get in the hot tub. We check back at the desk at Antlers, “where’s the hot tub you guys bragged about” they tell us it’s not operational. Great, after all that work on the sleds and no hot tub. I can’t figure out why it’s not operational, they have guests who want to use it. Don’t have the energy to argue.
Back to the cabin – still freezing cold in there, but we were only gone a couple hours, it just hasn’t had time to warm up. Jim and I bundle up and snuggle under the covers. Its horrible cold but we finally fall asleep. I wake up several times in the night to warm my hands over the heat register. There is a little bit of heat coming out, but it’s not warming up the cabin. Around 2:30 AM Jim wakes up his feet are freezing. He gets dressed and says he’s going to the office. I tell him if they can’t get this fixed we are moving to the Super 8! Jim went to the office, he bangs on the doors and no one answers. He walks over to the Super 8 and the gal gives us a room for the rest of our stay and only charges us for one night. THANK GOD! We immediately move over there and rejoice in the heat! Even the floors are heated! It’s 4:30 AM and we finally have heat, finally time to sleep! We have to go back to Antlers in the morning and tell them we want a refund.
The next morning the sun is shining and it’s beautiful out there! We quickly eat breakfast and are ready to hit the snow! While we are getting ready to ride we hear about a man who was killed in an avalanche the days before. His two sons were with him, age 13 and 15. He was stuck on the slope; someone high marked above him and triggered the slide. He was buried under 7 feet of snow for 18 mins. When they dug him out he was not breathing and they could not revive him. I pray for their family!
We stop at Antlers to tell them we moved to the Super 8 due to the lack of heat in our cabin. They tell us they will not give us a refund because we didn’t come to them for help. But she said to come back later and talk with her husband to see what he says. Makes me a bit mad – we made our reservations for a specific cabin and we get a different one, there is no heat, the hot tub is not operational and their restaurant is not open! And they say we won’t be getting a refund.
Off we go. I cannot tell you how beautiful it is. I can’t figure out a way to express it either. It was so sunny and the skies were so blue. Every where you looked it was more beautiful than what you just looked at. Amazing.
I saw an avalanche! I got a picture of it. We were far enough away, but you could see where the break was and the slide!
I am not sure which trail we went out on, but we ended up at Round Lake and played in the deep powder. It was so much fun trying to make my sled do what I wanted. My sled has a mind of its own – we are gonna have to come to some kind of understanding soon!! Jim and Doug were ripping it up all over the place. I tried a few side hilling stunts, not pretty, but fun! Tried a jump, didn’t turn out to be a jump, more like a flop. It was so much fun! We followed some tracks that dumped into a beautiful valley and we played some more. We ended up on a one-way narrow trail. I hoped we didn’t run into any oncoming traffic! That too dumped into a really fun play area! We found some fun hills to climb and we found some great powder to buzz through.
Jim and Doug decided to do some climbing and said they would be just over there, they said to play in the powder. So I decided to find a spot and do some figure 8’s like Jim said to do. While doing that, I got stuck. BIG TIME STUCK. I was trying to make a left turn, my sled tipped to the right (no clue how that happened!) and I was going to stand on the left rail like Jim told me to, I didn’t move to the left rail fast enough and got the sled stuck tipped up on its right side. I sat on the edge of my sled and waved until the boys saw me. They made their way back to me. Jim tried to get my sled out and it went deeper into the snow. That’s we found that we were on a lake and the water was COLD! My sled was in the water, I doubt we broke through the ice, but there was water under the snow!
Pictures of the stuck? – Nope. No pictures. Sorry. I was so worried that Jim and Doug were going to take a swim I didn’t even think of taking pictures. I did get one of the ice packed into my track.
Jim had to take my sled around a bit to get the ice off. It was so heavy with the ice that I could not get the tail to come around. We decided to get off the ice and head over to another valley and play on some hills. Every turn put us into an even prettier place!
\image{18 fun valley</font>
We decide to head back to town for lunch. We run into a guy that lost his group and needs to get back to town so he rides with us to town. Of course, all the way back we can’t help but play around! We get back to town and the other guy finds his group and they invite Jim and Doug out for the afternoon. I curled up in bed and took a much needed nap in the nice warm Super 8!
Jim and Doug get back later and we head out for dinner. Again another great dinner at the Soda Butte! We stopped by Antlers again and the guy said yeah, the heater was plugged but it works now. We told him that we are already settled in the Super 8 and that we want a refund. He agrees to refund only one night. Jim doesn’t argue, but my intention is to get a full refund. I will address that to them when I call once we get home.
The next day we rode out to the trailer to get Jim’s 01 Renegade out. It needs to be broke in again since it has new pistons and rings.
We head back towards town and we take the LuLu Pass trail. We came up on these old cabins, took pictures to show the kids – told them that’s were we stayed! The trail up there was incredible. I stopped a lot to take pictures. There was a bit of a climb and I did great on it! Got to the top but then for what ever dumbass reason, I turned out a bit and ended up getting stuck on the down slope. OOOPS!
Doug and DeAnn had already gone to the top of the next climb. So, Jim told me to get on his 01 Renegade and take it up and he’d get me unstuck. That’s 2 stucks for me – 0 for everyone else. I ran the 01 up to the next plateau and it smelled funny. Turns out we smoked a brake thingy. He checked the little brake fluid box and there wasn’t any fluid in there. The smell was the brake fluid. So, we are up on the big hills and Jim has no breaks. Doug and DeAnn go further up and find what DeAnn and I called the Top of the World. I buzz up there. MY GOD it was beautiful! I wish we had found that spot the first day. It had every possible thing you could do on your sled down there. It was like a snowmobiling amusement park! It was so cool! We took tons of pictures, but none of us had the energy to go down there to play. AND, Jim didn’t have any brakes on his sled so he couldn’t go if he wanted. So, we had to go back down to the trailer and get the Summit back out.
We rode easy back out to the rode since Jim didn’t have any brakes, went back to the trailer and the rest of the trucks and trailers were gone. Ours was the only one left in the upper lot. There were maybe 6 or 8 in the lower lot. We changed out sleds and headed into town for lunch.
While at lunch we decided that we had better just pack it in and head home. We picked up our gear from the Super 8 and headed back to the trailer one last time.
After loading up, we head out on the Chief Joseph Highway and we see our first moose. He’s down on the side of the road – we literally back the truck up and find him again to take pictures!
We came across a caribou; he ran off and then stopped and looked back, almost like he was saying bye as we drove off.
We make our way back up and over the mountain on the ice and snow packed highway. We get back on I-90 East headed for home. Everyone was exhausted tired! Jim, Doug and DeAnn did all the driving; DeAnn pulled a 6 hour tour of driving and got the best gas mileage of the whole trip! We were home by noon on Wednesday, crawled into bed for a much needed nap!!
We had so much fun, what a GREAT Christmas Present I got from my Jimmy! LOVE YOU SWEETIE!
Hopefully I didn’t put anyone to sleep!
REV IT UP!
Jul
