Hail Mary

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Well, we have now made the trip to the Colorado Springs area to visit even more family.  Actually though, one of this family was in fact the same one that we shipped back from CA after he broke his arm.  The only difference is that he didn't get to go to Legoland, and that he now wears an Oregon Duck green colored cast on his left arm.

We toured the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, and a WWII Aircraft museum while we made the trek.  The weather was blistering hot (105+) most every day, but our slow pace made the trip relaxing.

Speaking about the weather, I often get anxious about the weather on the Central Oregon Coast with the rain so often.  But so far, we've had nothing but high winds along the way.  And typical for this neighborhood, afternoon thunder showers.

But not so typical, were the two hail storms we got caught in.  The first in Trinidad, CO, and just after we arrived in the Springs area, another.  The second was very violent and drove golf ball sized stones into us causing significant damage to our tow vehicle that we were driving at the time.   So fierce in nature we couln't see and were forced to pull off the highway in the open plains area.  Perhaps you've seen the news where the hail buried cars that tried to cross a gulch.  The accumulated hail was nearly THREE feet deep.  A historical record.

Just our luck.
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