The Road to Taos

Sitting in one spot for a while and visiting with family and friends is one of the joys of owning a motor home. Eventually however, one’s feet get restless and it’s time to once again hit the road in search of new adventures and places to explore. This is one of the other joys of owning a motor home. With mixed emotions about leaving family behind one more time we set our course for Taos, New Mexico. JoAnne has an uncle who moved there from Palisade, Colorado a few years ago, bought a house, made new friends and settled in permanently. We spent the first night out at Lathrop State Park in Walsenburg again then headed west on US 160 over LaVeta Pass to Fort Garland. The Aspen were turning and the scenery was spectacular. At Fort Garland we turned south on highway 159 which takes you right into Taos. The scenery only got better.

We spent several days in Taos visiting with JoAnne’s uncle and exploring the surrounding area with him acting as our personal guide. This is a very beautiful and historic part of New Mexico and we look forward to returning there soon.

Summer in Colorado

I know it’s been quite some time since you have seen any activity on this blog but it’s now mid March 2008 and I reckon it’s time to sit down and bring this thing up to date.
After our Black Hills trip we spent the rest of August and the better part of September back in Denver. One of our neighbor couples from the Voyager, Fran and Bob, were visiting Colorado this summer and were staying in Denver for a week. We hooked up with them and took them on a few excursions to Georgetown, Estes Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake and a few other “must see” places around the area. Fran was impressed with this Blog concept when she saw what we had started and she started one of her own. She calls it “Travels With Moochie” and claims that their cat Moochie, who also travels with them is the true author. You will find a link to Moochie’s Blog on the lower right portion of our cover page.

While in Denver we also had lots of friends to visit as well as doctor and dental appointments and eye exams. Jim attended his 45th high school class reunion and we attended the annual Model A Club Labor Day picnic and a wedding in September.

We moved to another RV park in Greeley later in September and spent the last part of the month with Sara, Shannyn and Leo and made trips to Brush, CO to visit with Jim’s sisters and mother. While at the Greeley park we got a good look at some of the new larger motor homes that some of the guests were driving. After two months in our Bounder we started thinking that if we were going to continue making these extended travels, it might be nice to have a little more room, storage, power, and especially, a bigger refrigerator. Alas, the seed was planted, everything else was OK but we would keep our eyes open for a bigger fridge.

September went by all too quickly and with October, and Autumn rapidly approaching it was time to pull up stakes on our traveling circus and head our restless wheels south again.