CHAINS!

This morning, 10/12/18, started early again. We were greeted with 30 degree temperature as we headed into the truck stop for coffee and a bathroom. Glad I packed for two seasons. 🧤🧥🧣

We are on our way to Irwindale, California. From where we were located, that could only mean one thing..... Vail Pass, and over the Rockies.  We were off and running, with the occasional snowflake falling. The higher we went, the more it snowed. It wasn't long before we saw that sign every trucker hates to see...."All CMV must chain up ...." so that meant pulling over and Mark starting the process of putting chains on tires.  I learned not only was this NOT a fast process, bit it was also a  dangerous one with cars and trucks speeding by on a wet, icy surface. I did not take my eyes off Mark, as I watched thru the side mirrors.  An hour and a half went by, during  that time Mark got the chains on his truck and helped the lady behind us with her chains.  We were finally ready to get back on the road....ONLY to find out the chain law had been lifted. Thirty minutes later, and a rather irritated and very cold husband behind the wheel, we set off for our destination. 

As dawn was well upon us, and we were coming down out of the mountains, we both mentioned that the landscape we were seeing at that time was ugly and we didn't understand why people would live out there.  Boy, did we have to eat our words later, for what God had in store for us was nothing short of spectacular.  Entering canyon country, climbing higher and twisting around every bend, there was beautify color, that can only be described as God's artwork with His paint brush. Beautiful reds, yellows, and oranges spilled before us and all we could do is sit in awe. It was as if God answered our question, saying, "THIS is why people live here." 

I am so blessed to be able to see this beautiful country we live in, with my soul mate.