Stop for Gas

Time for gas; when we pull off, we meet a couple who lives in Wisconsin, they had been out to visit their son in Trememton, Utah. We hadn’t met the couple before, but we had met the son. Conrad had taught school in Pennsylvania a few years ago and we met him while he was living in my daughters house while my daughters family were out in Washington state, teaching at the Russian school for 2 years. It’s a small world. We meet in Wyoming, their son lives in Utah, they live in Wisconson. We met the son and had dinner with him and his wife, while he was teaching school in PA.

It is 1pm and we’re still going thru Wyoming. The wind is blowing very hard shaking the pick-up around as we drive.

We finally reach Cheyenne, taking a right we go down thru Colarado. We are going to stop in Oklahoma to see my daughter so we are turning down to I-70 now instead of later.

We pass Loveland. We’ve been here before. One time when we drove our motor home back east, we went thru Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. In Estes Park there are often Elk grazing in the town. On top in the Rocky Mountain Park you’ll visit sights that exsist no other place. As the Home Website says you get to experience the exhileration of the view over the clouds.

We seen the shiloette of Elk in the setting sun. The altitude from 7,500 feet to 14,259 feet slices through the mountain’s sub-alpine and alpine zones. Take a drive up the ridge road you can experience the Artic ecology. We stepped out of the mortor home and it was cold and quiet. So quiet you could almost hear the silence. As we started down the mountain, our brakes started to heat up. Pop pulled the motor home off at a pull out along the road and tried the brakes again, This time they went clear to floor. No brakes. We let it rest awile and since the motor home has self adjusting brakes, Pop backed it up several time till we had brakes again.

That night we parked at a park near the botttom of the mountain. All night we could hear the haunting night music of bugling elk. It was awesome. Many times we have to thank the Lord for the blessings of our experiences and also for His protection and mercy to us while we travel.

We are now past Loveland and headed down through Colorado. There are several toll roads to get around Denver. To get Pop thru an interchange and onto the right road is an experience of it’s own. Since Pop does all the driving he says I’m his co-pilot. Since he has to keep up with all the cars going at speeds that would scare anyone. ( I have to admit , it seems faster than it is, because Pop don’t go faster than the speed limit) he just doesn’t slow down when I think he shoud.

We are now on I-70 headed east. It is 25 miles to the border of western Kansas.

I’m tired an when I’m tired I can think of all kinds of things to pity myself. Why? Why? Why? So I buried my head in my pillow and thought…….. about all the blessigs I have, I can’t think self pity, when I think about people all over the world that are suffering much more then I ever thought off. O. I do have my times, but I can honestly say they don’t last for long. My God is faithful and brings peace. I get the most discouraged when I think about Pop, when he don’t feel good.

Tired and hungry we pull off for the night. Burlington, CO. We look for a restaurant and find one that says Chinese Food. Pop said he wasn’t hungry for Chinese food tonight, so we went down the street and got a supper buffet at a different restaurant. It was Chinese. Pop didn’t say anything and I didn’t either. The first clue was the soup. It was “Egg Drop Soup,” and folks that ain’t American. Note: we were in the Midwest where it is called breakfast. dinner and supper, instead of breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Well this has been kind of a boring day. You have days like that when you travel. One thing for sure I never get so bored as to not get excited when I think about all God’s creation and blessing to us and the United States.

I like this thought by Glenna Oldham;
Sometims when I come to pray and close my closet door: my earth-bound thoughts are a roaring ocean beating, beating upon the sands of my mind. Then Jesus comes……

I leave you today with a few verses from the NIV

But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise You more and more. Psalm 71:14

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Saviour and my God. Psalm 42:5

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13