Summer of Love Day 43 Log

  • 8:24 am: On the road again. 429 miles until we are home.
  • 11:06 am: On I-35 north. We are in the final stretch!
  • 11:30 am: Back in Culver’s country.
  • 1:57 pm: Hello Minnesota!
  • 3:28 pm: Home Sweet Home!
  • 7:17 pm: Thanks for all of the Welcome Backs! It’s really great to be home again. Much to catch up on!
  • 10:48 pm: Really happy to be sleeping at home tonight.

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Summer of Love Day 42 Log

  • 12:45 pm: Heading home.
  • 1:17 pm: 906 miles to go.
  • 3:01 pm: DQ stop in Ogallala, NE.
  • 3:04 pm: Excited to be heading home, but equally sad that our big road trip is ending.
  • 3:04 pm: 706 miles to go.
  • 8:06 pm: Done driving for the day. Stopping in Lincoln, NE.
  • 8:14 pm: Stuck behind 50 basketball camp teens checking in. OMG.

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Just passed 3,000 photos for our 6-week Summer of Love road trip!

Horse Run

We are having a great time here at C-Lazy-U. Every evening they send the horses out to the pasture for the night, and the wranglers get up early to go get them back in for the day. Sometimes they send them down the main road to a pasture across the way, and it makes for an amazing sight, and sound.

Herd of horses running down a dusty dirt road past a dark red barn, with wooded hills and cloudy sky behind them

Great day rafting down the Colorado River followed by an awesome massage.

Summer of Love Day 36 Log

  • 2:07 pm: First ride at the dude ranch was really great. My horse for the week is Buster.
  • 10:59 pm: The Internet is exceptionally elusive at the dude ranch.

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Summer of Love Day 35 Log

  • 9:27 am: Nice breakfast at Cali Cochitta B&B in Moab. Heading to see Arches soon.
  • 10:51 am: Great vistas at Arches National Park.
  • 12:12 pm: Heading out of Arches park and starting drive to C-Lazy-U Ranch near Granby, CO.
  • 2:30 pm: Hello Colorado!
  • 2:59 pm: U2 seems like Colorado music. Working well for us!
  • 4:37 pm: Iced Triple Espresso from Sacred Grounds coffee shop in Glenwood Springs, CO.
  • 5:43 pm: Still decent amount of snow at 11,000 feet.
  • 6:44 pm: Trying to explain to Mazie why a mosquito bit her. Not going well.
  • 6:56 pm: Hello Winter Park, CO! Shout out to Jim Bernard and Jeb Sr.

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Summer of Love Day 34 Log

  • 2:49 pm: Hello Utah!
  • 2:50 pm: Driving from Sedona, AZ to Moab, UT today. Quick stop in Moab on way to Colorado.
  • 4:36 pm: Exploring downtown Moab.
  • 6:51 pm: Nice dinner at Miguel’s Baja Grill in Moab. Trying to quick adapt Mazie to time change.

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Summer of Love Day 33 Log

  • 11:55 am: Heading to Montezuma Castle National Monument.
  • 1:45 pm: Lunch at Judi’s in Sedona.
  • 2:49 pm: 104 °F in Sedona today. Yeah, hot!
  • 3:34 pm: I still don’t understand how and when to take out the video camera. I’m so much more comfortable with photography.

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Road Trip So Long You Need An Oil Change

Yesterday we passed a milestone on the Summer of Love. After 29 days on the road and driving 4,541 miles the Honda Odyssey kindly let us know that it was due for an oil change.

Before we left on our trip my friend Kent had the revelation that our trip was so long that even with a fresh oil change, which we had done, we would need to have an oil change on the way. This, rightfully so, justified in his mind an entirely new level of road trip. One that exceeds all relevant norms. In fact, after learning of our oil change he reclassified the Summer of Love as an “epic” trip.

There isn’t that much in Sedona, so on our way back from the Grand Canyon yesterday we stopped in Flagstaff to run a number of errands – including getting the oil changed at Flagstaff Honda.