Look at life through the "Windshield"...

 On November 24, I rode along with "The Man-Child" on a freight trip from Central Utah, to Saguache Colorado. The trip took us over the "Continental Divide"...

 Considering the weather we ended up in, it's amazing we made it back in time for
"Yucky Turkey Day" 

(No, I don't like turkey, we had pork roast~! )

Here are some beautiful "Out the Windshield" pics...

What a beautiful road trip~!

*If you see some weird shapes, or blotches, it's not your computer - it's the flaws in the windshield...*

*If you see a carton of strawberry cream cheese danish bites in the bottom left hand corner of the pics, they were on the dash, on the defroster on purpose. Because I like them warm... I tried my best to edit them out with a water mark...*

*If you see any other weirdness in any of the pics, please ignore it - I was behind the windshield of a 'Volvo' - it's not a very dignified form of travel. A Kenworth, or Peterbilt would have been a lot higher class. We don't expect much out of a Volvo - hell, the windshield wipers didn't even work, so I'm amazed the pics came out as good as they did...* 

 We went through Central Utah on I-70 (very foggy and raining) through Grand Junction, CO - through Delta, CO - and into Montrose, CO for the night...

We got up early in the morning on November 25 to head toward Saguache. Neither of us had ever been this route. It's great that the Colorado Dept. of Transportation puts up signs on hairpin turns after you're commited to the canyon that say, "No road plowing between 5 pm and 7 am." It would have been nice to know this ahead of time...

The signs were right ~~ 

There is NO road plowing after 5 pm, or before 7 am... 

~Yay~ 

NOT!!!

It was slow going, but once we broke out of the canyons, the sun was starting to break through and the snow was melting off the road ...

Thank Heavens the "Man-Child" was a logger in his former life and drove a log truck off the rocky mountains for years. He can handle this stuff. But, even if he couldn't he had to, because the truck owner put the wrong size truck chains on the semi~~~

You know how Colorado requires that all vehicles have chains... Do they require the right size chains for the vehicle? Kind of perplexing why someone would be traveling with the wrong size chains, but completely understandable if you understand it... Maybe...

Yay Again~!!!

(Drivers ~ if you're in a rig new to you and heading into the snow, make sure you have the right size tire chains. It's probably not something that you think about regularly, but if you work for anybody with blonde hair, or white hair, check your tire chains...)

As we turned off of Colorado Hwy 50 onto Colorado Hwy 114 past Gunnison, CO, the road was snowed in again up over "Cochetopa Pass"... 

Guess what~~~ 

CDOT doesn't plow the roads much after 7 am either...

Even though there were no 'Christmas Lights,' I was singing "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..." 

Even "The Man-Child" chimed in from moment to moment when he wasn't trying to keep the truck on the road. 

At one point, we actually took off our seat belts, so if we went off the road, we would maybe be thrown from the Volvo and die with some dignity--- maybe in a snow drift, or plastered against a beautiful pine tree, or something...

We sang Christmas carols ~~~

We laughed at the google definition of "Wiener Schnitzel" ~~~

We left finger print marks in the steering wheel, arm rests and on the dash from the tense moments, hair pin turns on the icy roads and the scary moments of holding on when we started sliding with 80,000# of Volvo, road sealant cargo and aluminum trailer underneath us~~~

And, we had a very enjoyable, wintry, white road trip through a scenic area of Colorado for the beginning of the Holiday week...

The best part about it all is that CDOT (Colorado Department of Transportation) paid us to wait and deliver Monday, instead of Friday for our safety and the locals say the roads were dry on Friday ~ go figure...

Hope you enjoyed riding along for our Holiday road trip to Saguache Colorado to deliver road sealer to the Colorado Department of Transportation in the middle of the snow...

I actually require adventures like these in my life regularly to make me feel alive~!

"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror~!"

Take a moment of your time and watch the video below called, 

"The Time you have in Jellybeans" 

It really puts what we do in life into perspective.

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I hope you all had a Happy 

"Yucky Turkey Day"~!