On Sunday we had the luxury of starting our day's running from our motel stop in Sterling.  We passed through three towns as we headed towards  the Nebraska border each clearly struggling to hold on to their small populations but still claiming to be cities rather than towns. The run featured  long straight roads where the passing  trucks disappeared on the far away  horizon with the inevitability of a setting sun.

Ben and Julia relaxing roadside just before leaving the Rockies for the flatlands of eastern Colorado.