Month: July 2019

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On The Road to Alpine Wyoming

On The Road to Alpine Wyoming! This segment of our summer travels should be another highlight for sure. Pat has wanted to get back to the Teton Mountains since we first saw them in 1979 – 40 years ago! We had just been married a few years and we were both working full-time and I was attending college classes in the evenings. This was my first real vacation and it was surely needed. I used my entire annual two weeks of vacation for this trip! But, it was worth it! The Tetons are sure a magnificent sight!

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Cheyenne, Wyoming – Another New State

Pat and I begin our 6-week tour of Wyoming in the capital city of Cheyenne, Wyoming! This is another new state for us and is number 28 for us to have spent at least one night in the RV since we started just over two years ago. We spent a week in this historic city and had a great time absorbing all that we could before moving on. Our commute from Fort Collins, Co to Cheyenne was a nice short 45 minute drive with no complications!

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Fort Collins Colorado & Family Visits

This will be my last post from Colorado as we are now well into Wyoming. Just getting caught up on some items. After leaving Littleton, Colorado (suburb of Denver), we traveled due north up I-25 for a couple of nights at Fort Collins. The drive was 151 miles and through the middle of two good sized cities, so not my favorite kind of drive. Although, on a Saturday morning it turned out to be no big issue.

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Remembering Apollo 11 – 50 Years Ago

During this past week, I have seen many TV specials about the events from fifty years ago. Fortunately, I was old enough to remember the historic time. I was 15 years old during the summer of 1969. It is still difficult for me to think about that much time has passed in my life. I can remember when 30 years old seemed to be ancient! Not anymore. Anyway, here are my recollections and a few interesting facts of the Apollo 11 moon landing from 50 years ago.

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Wyoming, Here We Come!

Wyoming, Here We Come! Another new state for us in the RV! We will end up spending about six weeks traveling the state, so hope to get a good feel for the landscape, activities, people and the culture. Wyoming is a large state geographically (at #10), but is dead last in population. That sounds like many small towns and that is what we like. The Cowboy State has vast treeless plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the national parks of Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.

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Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

This experience could very well be the highlight of our 2019 Summer adventures! The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. Imagine being pulled by a chugging coal-fired steam locomotive through the western town of Durango, through some fields, then up into the mountains. Many times the train rails ride on a narrow rock ledge wrapping around a rock mountain with views several hundred feet straight down! I’ll describe the ride in some more detail later in this post, but first, here are some facts on this amazing passenger railroad…

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Durango, Colorado & Family Visit

Pat’s brother Robert has a summer home in the mountains near Durango, Colorado (6,500 feet and 18,000 pop) and has been asking for us to come visit. It has always been high on our agenda, but we never had good timing until this summer while RVing through Colorado. So, we decided to leave the 5th wheel coach in Colorado Springs and drive the 303 miles in our new little Honda CRV instead of crossing the mountains with the rig. We had a wonderful week full of family time, activities and mountain vistas!

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