Day Three

Wow - we can't believe that we are 3 days into our trip already! Time is flying for us which is both a good and bad thing. We are making excellent time, but haven't taken the opportunity to see any sights or enjoy local attractions, so we've decided to spend some time doing so tomorrow.

Today we made it all the way across Nebraska - see pics for our views all day long! Let's just say we were desperate to get out of Nebraska.

We have left the I-80 West and are now in Colorado in a small town called Sterling. We had no idea that the first couple hundred miles of Colorado are like the Old West - just lots of farmland, horses and tiny towns. In Sterling it feels like we have travelled back in time to the 1950s. We ate dinner at a diner we read about in our AAA travel book - the food was delicious - a welcome home-cooked feel after greasy drive-thrus for the past couple of days. We are going to spend the night here and then head to Grand Junction, CO tomorrow. The scenery looks incredible and it will give us the chance for a shorter drive day and the opportunity to take advantage of where we are. Check out http://www.visitgrandjunction.com/ to see where we will be tomorrow.

We encountered a time change today which gave us another hour, so we are now in Mountain Time, and 2 hrs behind Ontario. We were shocked at the number of Ontario license plates we saw today in CO, and we even passed a truck from Pickering! Amazing the things that amuse you when you spend a full day in Nebraska :).

We are looking forward to the mountains and canyons that are now ahead of us!! Good night :)