So happy to be in Colorado!

For so many reasons really...mainly because my fam is here and I get to meet Nora so soon! Also because I'm so happy to be out of the plains...Texas did not treat me well and I am happy to move onto the mountains. I have a longer post describing what I've been up to, but I have a one hour time limit on this computer at the library, so I decided to just post a bunch of pics for people to look at until I can finish my written description of the past week. All in all: things are great, the weather has cooled down (thank god!) and we're all excited to start the BLITZ BUILD in Colorado Springs in a couple days...enjoy the pics, big hugs from "Colorful Colorado".

p.s. These pics are horribly out of order...sorry!

Riding some horses.

You'll read about this soon, but the pastor at the church in Trinidad has horses and let us invade his home to rid them.

Mine was Brownie, and her cutie colt (on the left) is Krystal.

Exploring in Trinidad

More exploring

I love horses

Roadside naps are great

Finally in Colorado! Yay! I'm a happy camper.

Train climbing

CO!

New Mexico (notice the bullet holes in the sign)

Turns out its not a good sign when there are giant windmills. Who knew it means you're going to be facing some killer headwinds?

My new friend the horse. I named him Jasper.

Feeding Jasper.

Amazing sunrise in Texas. I don't like waking up early, but seeing the sunrise makes it worth it.

Texas in a nutshell. Add some ridiculous wind and you pretty much get the idea.

Texas!

Rider at sunrise in Texas

We did a bike clinic for kids in Arnett, TX. Here we are pretending to be biking while we perfect the use of hand signals.

Little towns love us, and we love them!

Hard at work in Oklahoma City...

Here is what our build site in Oklahoma City looked like when we got there...

And here is was when we left!

Mmm, refreshing.

This is a gentleman from the news who played us a Native American flute, which he only does for people he really likes :)

Extremely important work. Okay, we are just holding up a wall until the one perpendicular gets done.

B&Bers working on their hand blisters.

Sometimes we have to be creative to find shade...Sarah found a Caterpillar.

Oklahoma, doesn't this looks like I was riding through the 50's?

Typical B&B lunch stop

The view from my office

We were supposed to look tough with our bikes (on the riverwalk in Little Rock) but I was dropping mine because I was laughing too hard.

Here is the storm where we had to take shelter on some woman's porch. The pic doesn't really do it justice, it was pretty amazing to watch.

Tupelo, MS: Birthplace of Elvis. Here a 13 year old Elvis and I are just doing some hand holding.

We didn't pass a Mississippi state sign when we crossed the border so we had to improvise...with a post office :)

Crossing the border into Alabama, this was our first century ride.

I can't really remember what this was, I think a gold rush muesum...