We arrived at our daughter, Tana's, house on Monday the 16th. We saw them last at the family reunion time in the Ozarks in July. She checked with all of her neighbors to make sure that it would be OK for us just to park at her curb. We JUST fit between the two driveways.
It was a nice night together with dinner and kids going in and out to work. We woke up on Tuesday with the morning sky beaming at us.
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| Tana and Barry's home in Aurora, Colorado. |
The Rockies were all snow capped and Mt. Evans was looming before us as we drove into town.
Our good friends Bob and Denise E. gave me some of the last rhubarb crop from their garden. I had saved some to make some strawberry/rhubarb crisp. It ran over in the oven.
Wed. night we celebrated Carter's girlfriend's 18 Birthday with some ice cream pies.
We don't normally travel in the dark, but we were up early and heading down I25 South to meet up for breakfast with the Lees.
The base is just south of Colorado Springs and we found an IHop where we could meet up and have a place to park the Whale.
They are Army and just moved back to Ft. Carson from a tour in Korea. We knew them as newly weds and now they have two boys. Steven was getting in-processed and wasn't able to come. We had a short, but fun time getting to know Syler and Soren and catch up with Ali. They got a short tour of the Whale, we hugged necks and headed on down the road.
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| Spanish Peaks just before getting to the Raton Pass. |
The Whale definitely prefers the flat lands, but you can't get through Colorado without grunting up and down a few mountains, one way or another.
The northern area of New Mexico on I 25 is pretty flat and it was pretty dry looking today.
It gets pretty mountainous again going through Sante Fe. It's really a pretty area. We passed "mowing crews" and as we passed one that was mowing the median, he threw rocks at the Whale and we now have two big chips in the driver's side window. Craig called our insurance and someone will be coming to the RV park on Monday to see if they can repair them without putting in a new window. We have $500 dollar deductible. Craig then made a call to the New Mexico State Road Department and they have sent him a claim form to fill out, so we'll see what happens with that. Here's a picture of one of the boo boos.
We have stayed in this nice Enchanted Trails RV Park several times over our years of travel. We had dinner and are watching some football and we'll head on down the road tomorrow. We are close to 600 miles away from Tier Drop RV Park where we winter.
We are looking forward to seeing our Arizona family!!
Blessings,
Kathy
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