We're back on the road after a wonderful week in Ft Collins with friends that are family.  We really enjoyed our visit and plan to be back next year.  Sunday evening we had a lovely easy dinner on the awesome patio with a bit of wine and pizza (perfect dinner in my opinion).  All at once much excitement on the street leading to her court.  There are townhouses and one of them had a fire.  We had 7 firetrucks, 2 ambulances and a police car.  Fortunately it was not a severe fire but still took a good while to control.  Slowly the extra firetrucks left and so did all the neighbors and us.  Was nice to meet some more of Kathy's neighbors.  On our last day we spent the afternoon with Kathy and Dick. They visited us at the campsite and then we went into Loveland, CO.  Stopped at a fun store that had metal lawn ornaments and a full store of clothes and boots.  Fun, fun and more fun.  We then decided to stop at Benson Sculpture Garden.  What an amazing place.  This is a city park you can walk all around the park enjoying the sculptures.  We spent close to two hours just walking, talking and enjoying.  This is an amazing gift the city has given to all.  No charge and we only saw half of it.  We are going to do the other half next year.  I believe in August they have a major sculpture exhibit that does cost to see.  Then we went to the awesome patio at Kathy and Dick's house and had some treats and a drink or two.  Christy and Zoe came over so we could say goodbye.  After many hugs, goodbyes and a few tears we left and went home to get ready for phase 2 of the westward trip.

We got almost all the way across Wyoming yesterday and 5 miles from the Utah-Idaho border today.  The scenery is beautiful and Jack will do some posting eventually!!!  I promise to let you know when and how to see them.  Beautiful mountains that are snow covered still but very difficult to see in a picture. 
Tonight we are in Snowville Utah population 615.  I think there might be two campers here.  Weather is pretty good.  Little bit of rain while we were driving but on both days we seemed to dodge bad storms.  Was really looking bad here but seems to have missed our little paradise.
Will keep you informed of our progress to Portland, OR.