Summer 08 RV Trip, West Virginia to Colorado
I left home 5/3/08 in my new HHR to get the motorhome stored in West Virginia. RVed Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and most of the time in Colorado. I bought a lot in Pagosa Springs, stored the RV and drove the tow car home. Made it back on 8/31/08
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1 - Grand niece Autum
2 - Grand niece Sevanna
3 - Susan
4 - Ted
5 - Darcy
6 - Sam
7 - Jimmy
8 - My RV in front of Jimmy and Calla's RV while checking in at Salt Fork State Park in SE Ohio
9 - Salt Fork State Park
10 - Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio
11 - B25, one if these crashed behind our house when I was a kid
12 - Caproni, WWI, 87 MPH, range 372 mi, 14,765 ceiling; pretty cool!
13 - Where do you want me to put it?
14 - World's tallest wood roller coaster, King's Island, Ohio
15 - It was Memorial Day weekend
16 - Robbie Knievel about ready to make a record breaking jump
17 - That's him on the extreme left, about to jump
18 - But in the next rapid shot frame, he already exited stage right
19 - Kayaking the Little Miami River
20 - St. Louis Arch
21 - Cuba, MO
22 - The mural city
23 - On Route 66
24 - Fisher Cave in Meramec State Park, MO
25 - Flow stone
26 - 100 year old graffiti
27 - Branson, MO - Table Rock Dam left, town right
28 - Branson Mallard Duck
29 - Branson
30 - Branson, dozens of great entertainment venues; I saw the Oak Ridge Boys, Jim Stafford and Six
31 - A dear in the suburbs of Denver
32 - View from my Chatfield State Park campsite (on the outskirts of Denver)
33 - Mating birds at my campsite
34 - And they did
35 - There was an airport in the state park
36 - For RC planes
37 - Approaching Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP)
38 - On the road to Estes Park
39 - Lily Lake, RMNP
40 - Gopher in RMNP
41 - RMNP
42 - Elk in RMNP
43 - Forest Canyon, RMNP
44 - More elk
45 - Me at RMNP
46 - I forgot to bring my skis
47 - Impressive panorama
48 - Moose in RMNP
49 - View from a rocky bluff behind my Cold Springs NFS campsite
50 - The bluff
51 - My campsite
52 - Mt. Evans Mountain Goats
53 - Unphased by my presence (18x helps)
54 - The top of Mt. Evans, 14,264 feet
55 - The road up is the highest in the US; higher than Pikes Peak
56 - Another view from the top
57 - On the way down
58 - I did it on my motorcycle
59 - Pretty drive up and down
60 - Golden Gate State Park
61 - Back again to Rock Mountain National Park
62 - This time on the old road, unpaved, that they just opened (on the 4th of July)
63 - Cool canyon
64 - Skiiers took advantage of it
65 - It was a bit dusty
66 - But the views were worth it
67 - I was the only one I saw on a motorcycle
68 - Marmot in RMNP
69 - Want to go for a hike?
70 - Me at the top again
71 - Want to go for a long hike?
72 - Watch out for the building thunderstorm
73 - Maybe rock climbing
74 - Did I say it wat the 4th of July? Central City near my campground had the largest display in the state
75 - Red Rocks Park just west of Denver
76 - With an amphitheater
77 - Pretty neat place
78 - On my way out
79 - Air Force Academy entrance, Colorado Springs in the background
80 - Air Force Academy
81 - Cadets get to glide as an extra curricular activity
82 - Saw 3 outdoor concerts in 4 days, in 3 different locations, great music
83 - Collies can some times get too friendly with mountain goats
84 - Garden of the Gods, in the foot hills west of Colorado Springs
85 - Phantom Canyon, a rough scenic road from Canon City to Cripple Creek
86 - Free range cows in Phantom Canyon
87 - Mules roam freely in Cripple Creek
88 - Cripple Creek suburbs
89 - Skyline Drive, Canon City, not for the faint of heart
90 - Skyline Drive, 600' down on each side
91 - Arkansas River
92 - Me four wheeling
93 - The road got pretty rough
94 - But there were great views at the top
95 - Good enough to paint a picture
96 - Downtown Salida, the Arkansas River is hidden at the end of the street
97 - The Arkansas in downtown Salida, I kayaked just below this rapid four white knuckle miles to my campsite
98 - My free Salida campsite, stayed here for a week
99 - Kayaking the Gunnison River as it opens to Blue Mesa Reservoir
100 - Blue Mesa Reservoir, largest in Colorado
101 - Dillon Pinnacles on the Blue Mesa Reservoir
102 - Curecanti National Rec Area
103 - Curecanti is cut by the Gunnison River
104 - Curecanti from the Marrow Point tour boat
105 - To get to the tour boat, hike down 232 steps and 1/2 mile stroll to the dock
106 - From the boat
107 - From the boat
108 - Look out for falling rocks
109 - From the boat
110 - Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park
111 - Black Canyon, Watch that first step! 2000'
112 - Black Canyon Visitors Center view point
113 - Black Canyon Painted Wall, 2250', tallest vertical wall in the state of Colorado
114 - Me at the Black Canyon Painted Wall
115 - Black Canyon bee
116 - Black Canyon butterfly
117 - Ouray
118 - Another beautiful free campsite, a few miles up from Silverton, dad me me here
119 - On the road from Silverton to Animas Forks
120 - Animas Forks, a ghost town
121 - The Bar D Chuckwagon Supper Show, went twice
122 - Durango-Silverton train
123 - Roadside hot spring north of Durango
124 - This is where they filmed the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid jump, see the kid?
125 - Animas River in downtown Durango, kayaked it
126 - But not this section
127 - Pagosa Springs and the San Juan River
128 - The springs mineral formations are amazing
129 - San Juan Mountains above Pagosa Springs, nice place
130 - So I bought this lot on the Pagos Springs Golf Course
131 - The Lot - View of the green
132 - The Lot - Building site
133 - The Lot - View down the fairway
134 - The Lot - View up the fairway, upper left end of the fairway
135 - Mine is Lot 11
136 - Aerial, the lot is just left of the center green, on the bend in Caddy Circle
137 - I plan to build there next summer, something like this neighbors house
138 - or like this, neighborhood sample 2
139 - Neighborhood sample 3
140 - Neighborhood sample 4
141 - Neighborhood sample 5
142 - So I put the RV in storage and drove the tow car home
143 - And bought this as a temporary replacement for the catamran I sold in January
144 - Trip Log
145 - Trip route
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