The hard part of South Llano River State Park. Leaving.
But we couldn’t go to Jeff and Carol’s at Bandera without leaving here first.
It’s like having our own private RV Resort in the Hill Country (and we get to hang out with Jeff and Carol).
It’s warm and comfortable here. It’s another home for us.
The park we stayed at last night wasn’t bad. They were very friendly. It just wasn’t as scenic as some.
We wander our way south to Junction, Texas. South Llano River State Park. We got our favorite spot.
We’re out in the boonies for a day. Not much internet.
….went farther south than we expected. It got down to 22 last night, but no snow! It was an easy leave this morning.
We continue our slide south:
Big Spring, Texas. It’s warmer here. Not all the way warm yet, but warmer. No more long pants for me. My afternoon walk only required a T shirt.
We didn’t find the best park to stay in that we’ve ever been to
..but all we need is an overnight stop.
We did find a nice place to walk. Comanche Trail Park.
Tomorrow: farther south.
…was bigger than we expected. We woke up to low clouds and snow.
We hung around for a while. Did some work. Waited for the clouds to lift.
It warmed up to almost freezing. One more trip onto the roof and we got all the slides in again. A late start, but we were on the road by 11. Breakfast in Colorado, lunch in New Mexico, and dinner in Texas. Stopped for the night at Oasis RV Resort in Amarillo.
We drove through three states to get here and now that we’re back in Texas we’re almost halfway home. It is not forecast to get below freezing tonight in Amarillo, so no way we can wake up to snow tomorrow…… Right…….???
Here is that white stuff everyone has been talking about
Matt got my computer done and brought it out to us early in the day. We got one last visit with him for the year and were ready to go by noon…. ….then we started clearing snow off the top of the slides so we could close them and drive.
One at a time, with me on the roof and Judy below, we got each slide (and the attendant slide awning) to retract. Tonight, 200 hundred miles south. Lathrop State Park. We’re not out of the cold, it will be in the 20s tonight, but we’re out of the snow zone.
The dermatology appointment with John went well yesterday. He hit us each about 20 times with liquid nitrogen, so now we look like we got in a bicycle wreck, but he didn’t have to take any samples of anything to send to the lab, so that feels like a victory to us. Had a nice dinner visit with Becky and Brian in Longmont.
The Wednesday appointment with the eye surgeon went well. We’re all through with that until next spring. That was the last of our appointments, so we’re free to head south. We checked out of the campground at Boulder County Fairgrounds and headed south…. ….as far as Chatfield State Park in Littleton. Matt needs to do a couple more things to my new laptop. Have to leave the computer with him. Can’t leave yet, and there is snow forecast for tonight.
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I think she liked it!
A Nikon D3200. Now we can take better bird pictures.
Early fog for the drive from Kansas back to Colorado, but otherwise calm air and blue skies all the way. Now we’re back to where we started from a week ago, Boulder County Fairgrounds.
We had appointments scheduled through Friday. The weather forecast predicts snow here at the end of the week. We’ve shuffled the schedule somewhat. We go see our friend John tomorrow to get the liquid nitrogen torture, then on Wednesday we pay our final visit to the eye-surgeon so we can roll out of here Wednesday afternoon. A stop at Matt’s house to finish off the new computer set-up and we’re good to go south and snow-free.
At the KOA on Interstate 70. We’re on our way back to the Denver area to finish up our appointments before we head south. We didn’t need to stop this early in the day, but it’s a good layup. We’re set for an easy drive back to Longmont tomorrow.
We were out in the boonies in a dark place last night, so we went outside to watch the Orionid meteor shower. It was pretty much like every other meteor shower we’ve stayed up for. I left after an hour and went back inside without seeing any. Judy stayed out a little longer and ended up seeing two falling stars.
The motorhome is tight inside when it’s all closed up to drive. We can get at everything we need, but it’s certainly not roomy.
But then, when we get to our stop for the day, we push a few buttons and it opens up into real rooms again. It still amazes me every time.
Shoulder season camping. Not too crowded. It’s easy to like.
Thought we might get some Red-headed Woodpeckers. Got Sandhill Cranes.
It’s nice here.
The wind let up. The sun came out. It warmed up.
We took the kids to the playground.
Another high wind day on the Great Plains.
Drove north into a headwind anyway. We were ready to leave Beaver Dunes. Yesterday the crosswind was so strong it billowed out the port side slide awning and we had to drive with it flapping for a while. We tried pulling off on the shoulder and opening the slide into the wind and closing it again. That didn’t help. When we got to a small town we made two right turns to point us back to the west, stopped, opened and closed the slide on the lee side of the coach, and that reset the slide awning. The same thing happened to the awning today when we turned across the wind.
Stopped for the night at Scott State Park in Kansas.
The wind is still blowing but it’s supposed to let up tonight. We’re right on a lake. It’s probably nice here.
Big wind last night. We closed a bedroom slide around midnight to cut down on the noise. Moved on this morning. Drove east.
Calm and quiet through eastern Colorado. Got VERY windy from the north in Kansas. Turned south at Garden City to drive with a tailwind and stopped at Beaver Dunes State Park in Oklahoma.
A paradise for off-road vehicles in the dunes. (There aren’t any here now in shoulder season. It’s all quiet.) Not much of a campground but we fit (just).
The dunes are nice,
..but it’s a bit of a challenge to walk the sandy 4-wheeler trails.
Not very birdy. Interesting to see once. We’ll move on in the morning.
Tumbling run. (Alex has the back flip to go with the back handsprings now.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI45XUT-9yw
Vault practice. (I love the dismount off the apparatus.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eX-EZt6Sbs
Rings. (He’s made it to handstand on the rings.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB_grfRoijA
Southeastern Colorado. 100 miles out onto the plains.
Noisy Sandhill Cranes flying by.
…and A hoot owl.
This was only supposed to be an overnight stop, but it’s too nice to leave.
No appointments for a week, so we decided to wander around aimlessly for a while. We drove south this morning and ended up in Lathrop State Park in Southern Colorado.
Beautiful warm weather. Beautiful country. We’ll probably head out east tomorrow. Maybe Eastern Colorado. Maybe Northwestern Oklahoma. Maybe Western Kansas.
We had an unexpected result from our last test, but that was before we got the injection system fixed. We’ve run another 5th gear vs 6th gear test, as much as we could, driving from St Vrain to Chatfield back to Longmont. Smooth fast road; I set the cruise control on 65. Slightly rolling terrain, so I alternated 5th gear and 6th gear tracking every 5 miles to make sure any hills got included in each sample. 70 miles of test-time in all. 35 miles each.
The result, 0.2 MPG better fuel economy in 6th gear than in 5th. Too small a difference to be significant with that small a sample. What happened?
Last time, we were testing the fuel usage while there was a defect with the injection. At low RPM under load the engine shuddered. It could be that shudder was costing us 1 MPG!
Our last day at Chatfield State Park this year.
We’ve moved to Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont.
Tomorrow…. …a get-together with all the kids and grandkids at Becky and Brian’s.
