6/26 Palmer Divide

We began today in Kimball, NE and needed to be in Denver no later than 12:30 PM mountain time.  One of the guests had a family emergency come up, so they needed to leave a day earlier.  After we dropped off the guest, we blasted south toward Colorado Springs, CO, where storms were beginning to go up along the Rockies.  Today's storm prospects looked bleak for producing tornadoes, and one storm looked good for a few scans.  However, like the other storms that went up, it quickly became junky and not photogenic.  Alas, we stopped outside of Colorado City, CO, where we had our rooms for the night.  After hanging out on a dirt road, we decided to call it a day and head to the hotel.  12 of us met for dinner a BBQ joint down the road from the hotel, and the food was pretty good.  We drove 347 miles today.