Saturday night, we spent the night in Quanah, Tx. Had dinner in a cute little restaurant that looks like a train depot, complete with peanut shells on the floor.

Then we spent the night in the dirt parking lot of Dutch's. (a little hole in the wall cafe' that has killer Cinnamon toast with butter on both sides of the toast!!)

From there, it was about 4 hours home.

Now starts the transformation process.....roof rack, massive front grill guard and (of course) the K9 Unit Rescue letters on the sides!!

Saturday was Valentine's Day and we woke up in Trinidad, Colorado. Drove all day, Jimy spent all day on the phone, with truck stuff, we watched the Nationwide race at Daytona then decided to stop in Quanah, Texas.

We spent the first night on the way back in the Costco parking lot in Bozeman and had dinner at Outback. The next day we drove to Casper, Wyoming and met Jimmy's cousin for dinner. We stayed in a nice KOA campground in Casper then left the next morning for Denver.
Jimmy spent hours on the phone (work) and we missed a turn, so we took a 12.5 mile "shortcut" which reminded us of being back in Alaska...a gravel road!
We pulled up in front of our friend Harvey's house and spent a couple of days there. Friday morning we woke up to 4 inches of snow on the ground! A real pretty dusting! Then we had to be in the Wal Mart parking lot for a mobile tech to work on the bus 12V heater, he finished in about 30 minutes. We met Harvey and went to P.F.Chang's for late lunch.

Sunday started with a phone call to the people selling the Hummer, and they gave us the GPS numbers to their house! ( they obviously don't speak 45' bus!) As we drove further and further into the country the road turned into a sheet of ice! (note the picture of the road...it was plowed, but no where to turn around)! Luckily, you could keep going.....tenuously.... and get back to the main highway.
Lunch at IHOP, a stop at Petco to get Shadow a new bed (for the Hummer), then Jimmy had to wire the Hummer for towing which took a couple of hours in the parking lot....thank heavens the weather was sunshiney and warm in the sun!

January was a pretty ho-hum month, just work, etc. But, then came February. Jimmy had found one of the two yellow Hummer H1s built in 2004, on eBay and bought it! (I knew he couldn't last a year without one) The one catch was, it was in Kalispell, Montana! For those of you who don't have a map, it is about 100 miles from the Canadian border! So, on Thursday,,,,we loaded up the bus and off we went!

We stopped in Clayton New Mexico and spent the night in the parking lot of a quaint little cafe, where we could wake up in the morning and go in for breakfast, Then on to Denver! We stopped in Denver and saw our friend Harvey, (My very own personal Harvey the rabbit!!) ( My best friend since kindergarden). We parked in the Nordstrom parking lot and he came to get us. He was going to go with us to Montana, but some audit at work (UPS) was scheduled, so he couldn't go. So, after a nice visit and dinner, off we went! The weather was nice, so Jimmy drove hours and hours......we stopped in Buffalo, Wyoming and ate at a cute place called the Hoot and Howl, where we played a rousing game of "Fact or Crap" while we waited for our meal. (speediness was not on the menu!)

We spent the night in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Polson, Mt. (about an hour from Kalispell).