Home Sweet Home

3850 miles...
385 gallons of gas...
14 days...
11 National Parks...
9 states...
8 RV campsites...
3 dogs...
2 tired adventurers...
1 dirty RV...

Opportunity for one amazing scenic trip...

PRICELESS

Had a great time. Hope you enjoyed the blogs and pictures!

Wind Power

Of course, some of us aren't impressed

Sweetwater Wind Turbines

Wind power here we come! You wouldn't believe the number of wind
turbines scattered across the plains. There are literally thousands.
American ingenuity at it's best!

Got snake?

West Texas Rig

Stopped and went through a cotton field. Grabbed this shot of an oil
rig. I like taking the sepia-type pictures. Skip

Goodnite from Lubbock

Just cooked some steaks on the outside fire pit. Having some vino on
the last nite of the trip. Not many pics today, as that trip from
Santa Fe thru the pandhandle is flat flat. Hopefully some good pics
on drive in tommorrow. About an 8 hour drive home to Austin.
Goodnite peeps. Skip.

Texas!

About another hour or two to get to Lubbock. Then will call it a day
of driving.

Billy the Kid gravesite

Drove thru town of Fort Summer, NM. Gravesite of Billy the Kid. Had
site barred up so people won't steal headstone. Happened a few times.

Windmill in New Mexico

On drive towards Texas. Stopped alongside road to eat lunch. Old
windmill in field.

Lonely Indian man

Man in Santa Fe. Had disappointing sales of his jewelry on street.
Now homeless.

Goodnite from Santa Fe

Took a stroll on the main square. Went in a few Fu Fu art gallerys.
I'm convinced I can frame any of my pictures, frame them and charge
$4500! Some prints going for $30k and not even the original. Ate
dinner at a diner on square, corn tortilla tacos. Soppapillas for
desert. Back to RV around corner in some neighborhood. Leaving for
Tejas in the morning. Prob try to break it up and get to somewhere
past lubbock. Nite. Peace out. Skip.

Leaves on square

Again. Altered photo with sun coming in between leaves. Tree is yellow.

Santa Fe Courtyard

I altered color of photo. Gives it a brown / old timey look.

Indian street vendors

Off square in Santa Fe

Mark on square in Santa Fe

Meadow enjoying ride

Sandstone Rockies

Just about 30 miles before Santa Fe.

New Mexico Ampitheatre

Natural theater in side of mountain . They turned into park.

Yellow Flowers

Stopped over to let the girls do business in New Mexico. Nice flower
shot.

Abby on way to Santa Fe

Me on bike

Am I gonna have to shave my beard off after this trip?! Bout to eat
and head back to hot springs before bed. Peace out compadres. Skip.

Mark on bike

Small bike ride into town this afternoon.

Pagosa springs

Got here today. RV site is right at the base of the springs. Took a
swim in hot tub and steamer. Rode bikes down to small town and went
in rock shop. Bought a few things. Cooking HB helper tonight.

Ouray creekside

Lil bridge we walked across last nite to dinner. Our camsite is just
to the left on water. Was nice pitstop.

Mtn stop before Durango

Really like this sw part of state. Valleys, fields and mtn tops. Few
ski areas around I see. On our way now to Pagosa Springs.

Hot springs

Walked over to the hot springs pool. Temp bubbling from ground about
110. Was nice to chill for an hour. Walked to the old town main
street. Neat 1800 bldgs and hotels from when mining town. Lots of
character for a 6 blk town! Ate Mexican food (first dinner away from
camp). Not Chuys, but worked. Heading to Pagosa Springs in morning
and then Santa Fe. Peace out compadres. Skip.

Oural valley

View from Oural Valley. Great color .

Ancient pedraglyphs

Came across this ancient Indian drawing. Looked amazingly similar to
Mark and I.

Black canyon of gunnison

Incredible view of black canyon of gunnison. Switch back roads all
the way up. Stopped to have lunch at top.

Video of approaching black canyon

Video of aspen drive

Mixed a pet shop boys soundtrack, hahaha.

Abby running in aspens

Nature called along the way for da business. They liked the grasses.

Aspens/ fall foliage

Left glenwood springs this morning. Drove down to Ouray, sw Colorado.
Beautiful aspens and canyons along the way. Will send video of drive
next.

Stream / rafting

Yet another pretty stream setting. Last blog tonight. After hike we
signed up for a half day of white water rafting which started and
ended at our campsite. Water was bone ass cold! Took a hot shower to
thaw my toes! To think this is the warmest the water will be! Can't
imagine how cold it will be when wintertime snow melts.

Leaving in the morning for the Black Canyon in Gunnison for
overniter. Been waiting to find hot springs to sit in. Peace out.
Skip.

Hiking w pups

Stopped for a photo op. Girls loved playing in the creekbed water and
running.

Old mining shaft

Came across this old mining shaft which followed the mountain to
glenwood springs.

Creek

Natural creek stream on path.

Hiking

Spent the first half of the day hiking the canyon with the girls.
Lots of natural springs and canyons. Amazing scenery.

Renee at campsite

Renee on her leash wondering what Sunday would bring and watching
rafters go by.

GS campsite

Girls enjoying the shade and river at campsite. Gonna grill up some
steaks and potatos. Relaxing with some miller lites tonight. Peace
out. Skip.

Another of GS canyon video

Glennwood springs canyon

Biked right through canyon

Biking / Glenwood Springs

Nice path from our RV site to downtown Glenwood Springs. Neat gold
rush/earthy town. Lots of tourist things to do.

Driving to Colorado

Abby helping me drive and lookout for animals on the road. So many
smells!

Glenwood Springs Colorado

Just set up campsite here in glenwood. Site right on the river.
Trying to fiqure out if to bike to town, check out kayaks or
sleeepeeepp! Driving is causing us to probably pit stop here for 2
nites to have down time. Taking a cable car up mountain tonight for
live music/charity food drive. Skip.

Flaming Gorge Utah

Went through the Flaming gorge canyon yesterday afternoon in NE Utah.
Made it into Colorado Nw last nite. Not lots up the way so we stopped
off hiway to set up base camp. On our way to Steamboat springs this
morning to stay for a day or two, bike, hot springs. Skip.

Grand Tetons Mountain range

Stayed the nite at the base of the Grand Tetons in NW Wyoming. Snow
capped mountains. Destinctive high point. Just drove thru Jackson
Hole, Wy. Nice lodgy/ski town. Lots of shops. Like to come back one
day here to snow ski. Peace out. Skip.

Old faithful video

Last stop on the yellowstone tour. Old faithful geyser. Erupts every
90 minutes. Amazing display of mother natures power. We are just
little ants on this planet in the grand skeme of things. yellowstone
has big areas of burnt timber from the 1988 fire. All these new
saplings everywhere. Nature has a way of rejuvenating herself. We
all need to be aware of the earth. In grand Teton mountains tonight.
Heading to western Colorado Rockies in the morning. Xxoo. Skip.

Lower falls video

Lower falls

Amazing water fall along the way. We hiked it a bit. I will send a
video next that u can view on computer. Skip.

Yellowstone buffalo

This morning we departed mamouth springs to visit a few spots and old
faithful. We met this old chap along the hiway. I think he was
taking the short cut to the pasture near the creek.

Meadow and Abby w Elk

Lots of smells!!! The girls seemed fascinated w the herd. We had a
BBQ campfire w chicken and beans tonight. Did up a few marsh
mellows. Yum!

Elk at Mamouth Springs.

Right at the base of our campgrounds was a herd of elk. The bull had
his own flock of about 20 . All about 20 feet away. Frank you would
like this. Skip.

Mamouth Springs

Camping tonight at Mamouth springs, northern part of Yellowstone.
Hiked up to top. Was expecting more geiser hot springs. Came along
this pool area. Lots of hot water and bacteria type formations.
Hopefully old faithful springs will be better. Skip.

Tower falls

Just past the bear was a beautiful waterfall. Hiked down to basin
below.

Grizzly Bear

Driving north in the park today. Incredible landscapes. Came upon a
crowd along hiway and this grizzly bear was walking and eating
alongside. Awesome display of power in nature.