During both of these trips I have been amazed and overwhelmed with the beauty everywhere in our country. When we got home and I started going to work every day, as I drove over Center Minot Hill and looked at the scenery I remembered that there is just as much beauty at home. Every morning as I came to the top of the hill, I could see Taylor Pond and the surrounding trees. As the fall colors progressed, it got even more beautiful. Some mornings you could see clouds of fog hovering over the water. And when the snow came, came still another beautiful scenery. I'm so fortunate that I can see this beauty. I guess this is what they mean when they say "take time to smell the flowers".
We left on December 26 at 8:00 a.m., just ahead of a snow storm and headed South West. We saw a few fleuries, but it didn't really start snowing until we got just beyond Albany, N.Y. It was 2:30 and we decided to stop at a rest area. (So did several other RV's and trucks.)
