Wednesday, July 05, 2006

44 Days and Counting

Only 44 more days until vacation. Can't wait!

VacationGirl bought a nice, new, big camera to lug around but hopefully, it will take some award winning pictures! She's played with it some but has no clue what she is really doing! But still - with the beautiful scenary in Colorado, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a good picture or two.

Hotel reservations are booked - at least for the main portion of the week. Found a REALLY great hotel in New Mexico. Although VacationGirl and family will only be in NM for 1 night, she still wants to stay in one really great hotel on the trip. Tried to book on-line but no openings. Will try the phone today.

So much to see, so little time. The travel route is fairly set - going straight there by way of I70 - from home to Colorado. Boring road but gets us there the quickest! Coming back, it has been decided that the route will take VacationGirl and dear family through New Mexico (Santa Fe), Texas (Amarillo), Oklahoma (Oklahoma City), Tennessee (Memphis) and finally home. In all, we will have traveled through 12 states in the course of 10 days. Lots of driving - but lots of good picture opportunities.

Reservations have been made for the Pike's Peak Cog Railway. VacationGirl determined that it would stress her out waaaaayyyyy too much to drive up with dear husband. Good driver, but she's a bad passenger when it comes to mountains!

More to come as the time nears.....