Home...home again. I like to be here, when I can...

So we have concluded the trip and found ourselves back in Summit County, Colorado. Of all the extraordinary places we have been in the last 38 days, we all agree our own back yard is as grand as it gets. Please make a point to check in one last time with the next week. We will finish the editing of our last video, post interviews from the crew, and the last of our pictures. Don't forget to stop in one more time! 

Steamboat Springs in Colorful Colorado

We spent Monday trekking our way across southern Wyoming. Scholars maintain that this is where they coined the phase 'the open road'. Its wide open out there, kind of a western kansas, fell of the face of the earth vibe. Seeing the flat tops of northern Colorado proved to be more difficult then usual as there was a fair bit of smoke in the air. Apparently, unbeknownst to Team Short Bus who tries to stay outta the loop, there are great wildfires in the west. We crossed the border back into colorful Colorado for the first time in over 5 weeks. Chris pointed the bus for Steamboat Springs for our last night. We found our way out to Strawberry Park Hot Springs to unwind. After all, 5 weeks of traveling, hiking, climbing, biking, skating, longboarding, surfing, swimming, cliff diving, kayaking, and sleeping somewhere new every night tends to take its toll in you. So we soaked in the 100+ degree rock pools alternating with dips in the 50 degrees river water right next to the hot spring. If you are ever in northern Colorado, I would highly recommend stopping at these hot springs. We met some friends that offered to let us park the C OOL Bus at their camp. A few s'mores later we went to sleep in the wonderful 35 degree Colorado mountain air. No more dessert heat. No more 7 a.m. Portland dump trucks. No more killer eastern Oregon squirrels. Just cool mountain air.