According to KDVR TV:

This storm could be among Denver’s largest May snowstorms in history

When we stepped out of the camper in Green River this morning, it was sunny and 60. It remained sunny all the way through Vail. Although starting in Grand Junction we started seeing the warnings of a possible winter storm. By the time we entered the Eisenhower (Johnson) tunnel the temp had dropped to 40 and there were flurries in the air. When I checked the Denver news, I saw the headline above.

When we exited the tunnel it was full on snowing and 35! We drove in snow all the way down. By the time we reached Nebraska it had climbed back to 46. The original plan was for us to stay at a KOA in Ogalala, but we decided that getting down the road another two hours today would make tomorrow much more bearable. Besides in this cold weather we would have just set up camp, turned on the heat and read a book. So we continue to drive.

Just now we drove past a rest stop where a semi-trailer was raging fire and smoke! The tractor was detached and there were police on the scene. But we wonder what happened!?

This is starting to feel like a “live blog” but now we are sitting in the camper in Kearney Nebraska. The heat is running. The floor is cleaned up. Why do I mention the floor? When we pulled in and I opened the door, I could see that the refrigerator door was open and stuff was all over the floor. The terrible roads through Denver are surely to blame. So we spent the first 30 minutes cleaning up beer from a crushed beer can, and melted ice cubes literally everything from the fridge. Yes, we use expansion bars as an extra precaution to keep the doors closed but sometimes these things happen. Luckily, as I already mentioned, it was very cool outside, so the food stayed nice and cold as well. You can see it is all closed up now.

And here is the rest of our camper. The couch folds flat and the wall behind it is a Murphy bed. So it’s very space efficient. We love it, it’s perfect for two.

Since we are back in central time zone it is now a late dinner, so it’s leftovers. We’ll want to be on the road early tomorrow for the last 9 hours of the drive home. We are hoping to be at our lake house by dinner time, but it is an easy drive I-80 to I-35 to US-8 and we are almost there.