Jul 16, 2012 - Woodland Park

We moved from Cripple Creek to Woodland Park on Friday, July 13, 2012 and stayed for 3 nights in the RV Park at the Bristlecone Lodge. The primary purpose of our stop was shopping and resupply. Saturday we drove to Colorado Springs and shopped first for a new electric blanket at Bed Bath & Beyond (BB&B). Our old electric blanket was not fully functional and we use an electric blanket at night when we’re at higher altitudes so that we can limit the use of our propane furnace. Using the internet we had located a BB&B located each of the two...

Jun 7, 2012 - Denver trip

We drove to Denver on 6-02-12 to meet a retired Disney fireman who now lives in Colorado. Greg's boys were in a lacrosse tournament. We enjoyed the drive and scenery. Beautiful mountain views. We went to Colorado Rockies baseball game. It poured but the fans were very dedicated and stayed for the whole game. They lost 6-2. We ate spaghrtti for dinner.

Jun 7, 2012 - Pepperpod campground 06-03-12, 06-04-12

06-03-12 Traveled to a campground N.E. of Denver. Was passport America but very dumpy. The owner reduced the price to 20.00 including tax. Stayed two nights. Passed many cyclists on our trip there. 06-04-12 We had a very busy day. We went to a railroad museum in Golden. We enjoyed it very much. Then we took a coors brewery tour. Free beer! Later that day we went to the Black Hawk (Indian casino). We won some but then we donated some back. We ended up winning 50.00. YEAH!

Jun 1, 2012 - Garden of the gods, Seven Falls

We went to Garden Of The Gods today. It has many large,pretty rock fomations. They were amazing! We hiked some and watched some mountain climbers. We also went to Seven Falls. It was 248 steps to get to the top. We had to stop a few times, but we made it. It was very pretty. I am sure we will be sore tomorrow. We are going to meet another retired fireman from Disney for lunch tomorrow. David and Mel come into Denver next Wed. 6-6-12. They will be with us a week. We will be heading to South Dakota.

Aug 3, 2011 - Rocky Mountain High

We are now in the Rocky Mountains! Left the flat upper plains of Colorado and into the mountains at Colorado Springs. We stopped off at the US Air Force Academy and found it was there this time. Believe it or not we could not find it in 1976. I guess they just built it since then (Ha Ha). It was very impressive. We had rain for the first time in a long time on our trip up the mountain. It even was cool enough to use our heater for the first time since March. It got down to the upper 40s. Heading north today towards Rocky Mountain National...

Jun 18, 2011 - Up into the Mountains (Part 1)

June 17 (Part One)... Thinking it was more of a kids museum, we decided to stop off at the at the Dinosaur Research Center in Woodland Park on our way to the Florissant Fossil Beds. Boy, were we wrong! It is considered to be the #3 dinosaur center in the world. It is privately owned and they "build" complete dinosaurs from pieces sent to them. They have specimens in museums all over the world. Part of the deal is that they are allows to then make cast models and use them as they like. This what you see in my pictures. Their pieces have...

Jul 17, 2010 - Hanging Out

Day 37 Diamond Campground, Woodland Park, CO We didn’t do much today. We went to Wal-Mart for a few items and I got a manicure. My poor nails looked horrible :-/ Then we stopped at a small festival in town… We missed the farmers market…we had wanted to go to that but had forgotten about it until we passed it yesterday on the way back from the cave. It was a good sized one too….darn. But it was so hot and we were worn out from all of the climbing we had done in the cave. We are back in our little home and have just been hanging out. It’s...

Jul 16, 2010 - Cave of the Winds

Day 36 Diamond Campground, Woodland Park, CO Today we went to the Cave of the Winds in Colorado Springs. This was really a good day to go there. It is HOT. It’s even 90F in Woodland Park! But the humidity is only 20%. It was a very nice tour, lots of good info on the cave & the history. And some pretty good jokes during the tour too J But the cave didn’t wow us very much. I guess after seeing Carlsbad Caverns, it will take a lot to impress us. I will say this….I did have a new experience in this cave….we had to duck through short openings...

Jul 15, 2010 - Gold Camp Road

Day 35 Diamond Campground, Woodland Park, CO We went to Helen Hunt Falls today in the Cheyenne Park above Colorado Springs. This is not the actress, Helen Hunt. This woman lived in the 1800s and she got Colorado Springs to make this area a city park. The Park & falls are nice (more of a cascade) and there is a ranger here that will point out the plants and give other info you might want. There is a big climb by steps above the falls for a great view. We only did the short climb to the area at the top of the falls. The ranger helped us with...

Jul 14, 2010 - Cripple Creek

Day 34 Diamond RV Park, Woodland Park, CO I’m going to try to keep this post short…LOL…really. Joe & I left at 10:30 AM to go to Cripple Creek, Colorado. And we got back around 5:30 pm after at stop at the grocery store. It was a beautiful drive through the amazing mountains and some very pretty valleys. The town of Cripple Creek is so cute. There are so many old buildings in the area. We had a lot of fun checking out the casinos. We are still pretty stingy but we do like to play the slots (penny slots, that is). We had lunch at Womack...

Jul 13, 2010 - Garden of the Gods

Day 33 Diamond RV Park, Woodland Park, CO We left a little earlier today than we usually do. It is supposed to be warmer then usual up here in the mountains at 8400 ft. in Woodland Park. We are going down to Colorado Springs which is around 2000 ft lower. They are usually about 10 degrees warmer then Woodland Park during the day and at night. We went to “The Garden of the Gods“…a terrific place to visit. We thought the rock formations were so amazing. We were there for about 3 hours. Part of that time was driving around & walking among the...

Jul 12, 2010 - Laundry & Fossils

Day 32 Diamond RV Park, Woodland Park, CO I finally got that laundry out of the way. Wow, I’ll never let it go that long again. And doing it on Monday is not a good idea….there were quite a few people doing it today too. When we finished the laundry (Joe helped me get it together and back home) Joe swept & vacuumed the RV while I was doing the laundry :-] We finally were able to get our haircuts done today in town….town is only a couple of miles from the RV Park. Joe was getting very shaggy….well, I guess I was too :-/ We decided after we...