Face To Face Tour

We have had some long days with Pete so far this summer, but Alabama to Colorado has surpassed them all. In two days we traveled over 1500 miles in 26 hours....
We left Lay Lake the same way we came in the night before, but this time the intersection with the next major highway out was blocked. Big red Pete comes truckin up the crossroad and the road worker just looks at us, shakes his head, and motions "no, turn around!" They had fresh asphalt down, but no signage of road work ahead or road blocked up to that point. If you've read any of our news before or if you've seen Pete, you know what we were thinking..."How in the hell are we going to turn this baby around?!?" It's not like you can just whip out a U-turn. With the help of Justin Glass, one of the clinic skiers from Lay Lake, we got turned around and eventually made it out the back way to get on with our trip...Thanks Justin!
With that being in the first 5 minutes of our 26 hour road trip, we were a little concerned how it was going to go...but all was fine. We traded driving the whole way. Feeling pretty wiped out, we stopped in the middle of Oklahoma at 3am on Tuesday morning to sleep at a truck stop for the second time all tour. A few hours later, after PJ and Marcus got some Mickey D's in their bellies, we hit the road for the last 14.5 hours. We added one more hour on by stopping in Colby, KS to visit Jenny's grandparents and take a little break from the road.
From there we thought we were home free, but of course something had to happen to make yet another unforgettable event on the Face to Face Tour. If you've ever been to western KS/eastern CO, you know the wind can be insane. I was driving and noticed something flapping on the boat. I hollered back to Marcus and PJ and Marcus came to take a look in the side view mirror. We decided it was the boat cover (which it was), but just as we looked out at it we saw something fly off the top of the truck. The object broke all over the place and luckily there was only one car around us who was able to dodge the shrapnel. It was the spool of twined rope for the 4-buoy course we have had tied down on top of the rig. Obviously we had to turn around and get it. Again though, if you've ever been to this area on I-70, you know that the towns are few and far between. So, with the turn around, picking up the leftovers, and finding another exit to turn back around, we added about another 30 minutes of drive time. Oh memories!!!
Leaving at 3pm on Monday afternoon and arriving in Dotsero, CO at 11:30pm on Tuesday, we were MORE than ready to be out of the truck!
It was so nice to walk out of the rig and breathe the nice cool, fresh mountain air!