Another drive home to Colorado

On Saturday, July 24th, we started out early from the "Fried's B & B" in Waukesha and headed to Oak Creek to drop off some moving straps that we had borrowed from Jason W. Also wanted to see if he needed any help because of the heavy rainfall the night before. He said the family was doing ok even though they had lost power temporarily.
Basement flooding - a real problem sometimes.

We took off for Colorado about 8:30AM and our destination for the evening was somewhere around Omaha, NE. Not knowing what was planned in Omaha, we did not know if there would be rooms available. Instead of taking our "normal" route heading South and West along 43, 39 and then HWY 80 we decided to take a more scenic route for a change. This came about because of a discussion we had with the Fried's the night before as to how they came back to MKE the last time they were in Colorado. The route along 151 and 20 proved to be much more scenic and great for a diversion.

We listened to an audio book on the way (Peter did and I napped off and on. Always waking up when something important happened! Peter did fill me in). Only made stops for the bathrooms, water, ice, coffee and gas along the way. Made good time and arrived in the Omaha area around 6PM. As we began checking motels for a place to stay that night, we soon found that there were several major activities planned for the weekend and we would find it very difficult to find accommodations. We plugged in motels on our GPS in nearby locations and came up with Goodman, NE. Very small town with not much going on. We were tired, hungry and did not care at that point, so we took the room. Stopped at the local cafe for a bite to eat before hitting the bed.

Took off early on Sunday morning hoping to arrive back home in Colorado by mid afternoon. Weather was much cooler than our last trip making the drive more pleasant. We continued to listen to our book....this time I stayed awake! Arrived home by 4PM and unloaded our van. Looking for something cold to drink, we opened the freezer to get some ice only to find that the freezer/refrigerator was not working! We called management and were told that we would have to wait until Monday to check on a repair. Luckily we still had our other freezer stored in the garage, so we plugged that in and put our foodstuffs in there. Better freezing it than having it spoil I guess!

Monday came with a repairman. But we were told that he did not service our brand, we would have to get service from Sears. Another call to management told us that we would have to wait until Thursday afternoon to get it repaired. We were not happy to say the least, and after another call we were told that they could come out on Tuesday morning. That they did! And now we have a working refrigerator/freezer. Headed out to the store to replenish our larder. So much fun in 2 days!