July 23, 2014
Day 84
And that was our vacation!
It's 9:18 AM local time here in the Rocky Mountains, and I'm about halfway done with my venti white chocolate mocha. My suitcase lays open on the bed, and my clothes are in a pathetic little pile on the floor, waiting to be packed away again.
The journey back is still part of the journey, so we're not done yet.
2:21 PM local time in Denver. We’re pretty early for our flight, and heard it’s about half an hour late. Lovely.
8:33 PM New York time. We’re somewhere over Ohio...I think. Hard to tell. Our liftoff was a little more eventful than I’d prefer, as it seemed to take longer than it should have for us to get air born. And turbulence welcomed us to the less than friendly skies soon afterward.
Right now, Andy’s reading, as I was too just before opening up my Netbook to type this out, and we’re about an hour away from New York. The sun will soon set behind us in the west, and the east coast of the United States awaits our arrival as we slowly drop in altitude.
We’ll be back at sea level once we land again in New York, and the Rocky Mountains will be several hours and maybe a couple thousand miles back behind us. Our trip had its highs and lows, but mostly highs of course. We drove up 10,000-mile peaks, close to two miles above sea level, and that was after landing in the mile-high city of Denver before that. Hard to beat the heights we reached on this trip, but we always manage to find new fun in each new trip we take.
In the meantime, we are grateful for all we saw, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted on this trip. Colorado and Wyoming gave us much to appreciate, and much to think about. As the sun slowly sets behind us on our journey, we already look forward to the new sunrises still ahead.
11:45 PM in New York. Home sweet home!
The trip is over, but the journey goes on...
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