The trip begins

Leaving Gainesville early Wednesday morning.  On to the Rocky Mountains and leaving TS Debbie behind!

As you can see this is a itty bitty plane and OMG are they reading the manual?  

That prop looks fine........................Oh no its the other one that died!  Yeek!  Back to Gainesville for an emergency landing..................Fire trucks and ambulances to meet us!  The pilot was awesome and landed without incident.  Thank God he read that manual!

Many hours later we are on the plane in Orlando ready to take off!  3 1/2 hours later we are soooooooooo close to Denver.............but wait.............there is a storm and we can't land.  Well, lets circle until we can land...........nope,  not enough fuel.................lets go to Albuquerque!   




Many, many, many hours later we have landed, we have our bags, we have our rental car and we are beyond T I R E D!   But wait.............NO rooms any where in the mile high city!  None, zilch, notta,  we tried them all!  Evacuees from the wildfires.............ok then lets start driving.........

24 hours after we left Gainesville we find............  The Grant Motel..............kinda looks like the Bates motel in Psycho!  However, it wasn't bad at all.

Any place with a liquor store right in the middle of the parking lot cannot be all bad, right?

Ahhh,  now this is what we are talking about...................let the vacation begin!