The next morning we pulled
out a little after 7am and after stopping on top of a hill to get internet on my
phone to figure out which way to go, we were finally headed north! This is when
a map would have definitely come in handy. This was by far the longest day.
After a breakdown or 2, some McDonald’s apple pies, synchronized dances, a lot
of gas, the Beatles, some nice guys and crazy Mexicans, we made it to Lake
Pueblo in Colorado around 4pm. That is a lot of driving. Since we didn’t make
it where we were supposed to the day before, we just decided to bypass Zapata
Falls and the Sand Dunes and save them for one of my trips to Colorado in the
next 2 years. Right before we got back to the interstate, there was a mountain/large
plateau that you could see for miles.
Kidding, I told Cody we should try to
climb it in the bronco and that is exactly what we did!
The nice thing is
that when the bronco broke down on this trip, I mean literally just stopped
going down the interstate when Cody was holding the gas down, Cody could fix
it. No one really freaked out, we just turned the flashers on, pulled over, he
got out with his tools and within 10 minutes, we were rolling again! I was
quite impressed…I mean I know he built the thing but still :) Although after looking at this picture from when we broke down one time of absolutely nothing I probably should have worried a little...haha.
After realizing
there was nothing for another hour or more, we turned around and got gas then stopped
at McDonald’s in Las Vegas, New Mexico so I could charge my camera and my
computer some and Cody surprised me with sweet tea and an apple pie, my
favorite!! At our many stops in New Mexico and southern Colorado, plenty of
nice guys came up to talk to cody about the bronco and a couple of stops were
filled with crazy Mexicans piling in and out of vans and driving like maniacs. 
We
finally arrived at Lake Pueblo and it was so hot! I figured the first part of
our trip would be super hot and as we got closer to Colorado, it’d cool down
but I definitely got that backwards! As soon as we got to Lake Pueblo, we found
the swim beach and slowly got in…it was freezing, but a really nice area! After
that, we spent over an hour looking for a campsite by the water but they were
all reserved by RVs so we decided to take a shower, hoping that it would cool
down outside and be more bearable for tent camping. We walked in the separated
showers and walked out of the different sides of the building at the same time
laughing…it was coin operated. So after finding some quarters and taking cold 3
minute showers we still weren’t satisfied with almost 100 degree temps at 7pm. 
It went like this…"We could go eat with Blake and get a hotel…air
conditioning…a soft bed…real food…”
He had me at eat, haha. So, we headed to
the Springs, which is a little over an hour north, found a hotel, checked in at
8:48 and literally ran up and down too many flights of stairs taking all of our camping stuff up to the 3rd floor and changed clothes in order to
make it to Cheddar’s in time for dinner with Blake and Kayla at 9pm. We were
one minute late and I was exhausted.
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