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Not really; but it was raining by the time we got to the Front Range.

Afternoon thunderstorm.  Crashes and booms.  Hail too.  The last loudest lightning strike had a very “clangy” reverberation to it.  We think it hit one of the metal picnic table shelters.

We’re settled in at St Vrain State Park.  We can visit Becky and family from here.

The Great Alaska Trip map

3,037 miles to Fairbanks.

Dinner with John B. and Kip.

Here is the spot we left at Jackson Lake State Park.

And the morning light.

So we stayed for two nights at Jackson Lake State Park and cooled it.

Internet still sketchy; we’ll see when this goes out.  We’ll call the Colorado rough roads, and intermittent internet, our practice for the Canada and Alaska parts of this trip.

Still 3,063 miles to Fairbanks.

Land of handkerchiefs and Claritin.  We got here just in time for hay fever season.  First trees, then grasses.  And it’s almost time to get the humidifier out.  The humidity is down in the teens.

Jackson Lake State Park.

The Great Alaska Trip map

3,063 miles to Fairbanks.

Limited internet; can’t send campsite photos.

Starting right at the state line as we crossed into Colorado from Kansas.  Eastern Colorado isn’t getting enough love (or money) from the state.

Limon, CO.  There is a new RV Park in town.  It doesn’t even look like an RV Park on Google Maps yet.

The Great Alaska Trip map

3,145 miles to Fairbanks.

Character.

Highway 83 has been very good to us.  We’ve been on it almost all the way so far.  Not like the freeway at all.  It slows down and goes through every small town.  Just like the old days.

It is one of the longest highways in America.  It goes 1,894 miles from the Canadian border above Westhope, ND to Brownsville, TX.  We’ve driven most every part of it on one trip or another.  (In fact, on Google Maps, it goes all the way up to Swan River in Manitoba, but we haven’t driven that part.)  We’re going to leave it soon when we turn left on Interstate 70 just above Oakley.

Tonight we’re at Lake Scott State Park.

This is the warmest sunniest day we’ve had so far this trip.

The Great Alaska Trip map

3,343 miles to Fairbanks.  This driving to Alaska thing is easy.  In 530 miles, we’ll be a third of the way there!

Canada geese and kids.