It has been many months and mucho miles since my last post, which is actually a really good thing.
I spent much of the winter and spring enjoying my grandsons, Liam, Declan, Quinn and Colin whenever possible. The kitchen project was completed in April and it is beautiful!
Every month, I feel a bit closer to “normal” and this month I again became a “Gypsy Rover”. Chris and I headed out in Moby (our camper) on June 2nd and have been wandering across the US since then. We felt like “Dante” captives for the first three weeks as we crossed Alabama, Mississippi and Texas in record heat. We stopped by the Casita factory, in Rice Texas, for a "Moby Makeover" and a new awning. The drought, low humidity and temperatures near 100 convinced me that I’m will never be a desert person. We left Texas’ inferno for cooler temperatures but found infernos of another kind. We camped above Santa Fe NM at one of our favorite places, Black Canyon Campground near Hyde State Park. Still lovely and cool but it turned out to be only about 5 miles from the Pacheco Wildfire. We could see the smoke and occasionally smell it, but it stayed to our north. We left Santa Fe on June 26th and drove to Heron Lake State Park in northern NM. You guessed it, right past Los Alamos and the Las Conchas fire. We woke around midnight on day 2 to the strong smell of smoke and noticeable ash in the air. Colorado here we come!
Arrived yesterday (6/28) at Mesa Verde National Park. NO smoke, NO drought, NO inferno!!! We met several interesting people and camped next to a great couple from Kansas. Visiting the land of the ancients is always interesting.
6/30 Moved on to Lake City, Colorado. We've stayed here before (2009) at WoodLake campground and hoped to see friends from our last stay. WoodLake has a great community of people who stay for extended periods of time every summer. We're in luck, Reece and Don Carter from Kentucky have arrived and we have had a fun time catching up.
I'm adding a few pictures and if I can't remember how to label them, you'll be on your own for figuring them out!
PS: Snakes scare the "begeezus"out of me!!!
Helen
