Before we begin our motor home life, we first are driving from Boise to the east coast. We’ll spend a week with my family in North Carolina, and then some time in Pennsylvania with Greg’s family, which is where we’ll pick up the motor home and hit the road. As I type this, we’re sitting in an Airbnb in Amarillo, Texas, following day two on the road from Boise to North Carolina. I thought it’d be fun to type up some notes from the road from each day of our trip, and then maybe keep this up occasionally as we dive into motor home life.
Day one of our trip was driving from Boise to Cortez, Colorado. We left Boise right at 7 a.m. and pulled into our Airbnb in Cortez just as the sun disappeared behind the horizon, around 6:30 p.m.
Highlights from the day were watching the sun rise in Idaho – our last Idaho sunrise for a while; driving through Utah’s landscape which is absolutely stunning and was made even more beautiful through all of the amazing fall colors out right now; and arriving in Colorado just before sunset, and then watching the bright, pink sun disappear behind the horizon just as we were done driving for the day.
We discovered a place that we never heard of but definitely want to visit – Canyons of Ancients National Monument. And the charming little town of Cortez. Honestly, we were only staying there because it was on our route and we were able to find an affordable and pet friendly Airbnb there. But it was an adorable little town that I would be happy to find myself in again. We wanted to pick up some beer to go, and we found a place online right away that looked great to us – Wild Edge Brewing Collective. A little story that I want to remember – we looked at their selection online and picked out a rye pale ale that sounded really good and then looked at their hours and realized that they were closing right then. So, we found another place to get some beer that sounded just okay. We got in the car to go pick it up, and I thought, ‘Why don’t I just call Wild Edge to confirm their hours?’ So I called and the bartender confirmed that they did just close, but if we were close, we could swing by to grab some beer to go. We were so excited and it was so kind of the bartender to stay later than he might have so that we could try their beer. And it was so good! Definitely, definitely a place that I would return to.
Until next time!
— Jess
Our Open Ended Life 