RV and other travels around the World
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.
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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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!
We are on the move again to Angel Fire, a northern New Mexico resort area after a very nice nine day stay in Santa Fe. Our RV resort is located in Angel Fire, New Mexico (pop 1,000 at 8,400 elevation!) that is about 30 minutes east of Taos, New Mexico. The tricky part is that we have a direct route via a narrow and twisty two lane road that is a 100 mile relocation. To make it even trickier is that snow and a frozen mix was in the weather forecast. Uh oh…
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We really enjoyed our short nine day stay in this lovely small German town! Fredericksburg definitely made the “return to” list. Besides having a great and walkable downtown area (that was only 3-4 blocks from the RV park), the area has a multitude of wineries and great restaurants, the LBJ Texas White House and ranch nearby, and the surrounding hills are rich with abundant wildflowers!
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Gotta see the moms! We wanted to work in a weeklong trip back to Indiana to see our moms before taking off on our spring/summer/fall plans. Finally decided to extend our stay here at Llano Grande Resort by a couple of weeks. This is a very safe and secure park to leave our rolling home for a week. So, we booked our flights and a rental car and were off to the Great Up North on Tuesday March 19th!
We just finished a wonderful Thanksgiving week with family in the Dallas Texas area. We finally make it to Texas after a long driving year from Florida all the way up to Maine and then back to the southwest. Texas will be our winter home for the next four months. Four locations for about a week each and then down near the Mexico border for three months at one place. That will be our longest stay in one place since going full-time RVing! Continue reading “A Dallas Texas Thanksgiving”
Featured photo credit: Adam Mason
We have a new daughter-in-law! Our son Bryan married Jennifer Durdall on this last Saturday, October 6th. It was a lovely wedding with great weather and located in their hometown of Washington D.C. That location allowed for some sightseeing, fine eating, and quality time with family. Continue reading “Bryan & Jen’s Wedding”
The featured image above was the sunset in Hendricks County Indiana that greeted us!
We have now been at our old hometown in Virginia for three weeks. The long list of action items is coming along quite well. It has been a busy and somewhat stressful three weeks as we are rushing to meet some deadlines. One of the things that we wanted to do while in Virginia is a quick 500 mile trip to see our moms. So, we rented a car, packed a lunch and took off on Tuesday last week! Continue reading “Quick Trip To See The Moms”
The featured image was taken at our DVPC church at sunset. We are staying at the Fort Chiswell RV Park, near our former home town of Christiansburg, VA for a month before getting back on the road. There are dentist appointments, RV work, a complete sort through all of our stuff, a new car to buy, family and friends to see, and a wedding to attend. We have accomplished much at about the halfway point, but still more to do! Continue reading “Fort Chiswell, Week #2”