Happy 24th Birthday Kristina!!!!!! 21 AUG 09

We made it 380 miles a pretty good day. We stopped in Checotah, OK and are staying at the Onapa RV park. Nice park quiet and peaceful. Off for home in the morning. We have about 3 1/2 hours left to reach the house.

Oasis RV Resort Amarillo, TX 20 AUG 09

What a day of hard hard driving, we were running against the wind all day long and boy was the wind blowing. Dust storms from Roswell, NM all the way to just outside of Amarillo, TX. We got to the RV park at around 5:00pm and set up for the evening. OH I almost forgot to tell you my eye tooth on the left side came loose and out!!!! Man do I look good. We went to Walgreen's and found a temporary repair kit for crowns that come loose. Sure hope it work because the dentist can't see me till Tuesday. All is good and we are headed closer to home in the morning.

On the way home 20 AUG 09

We are leaving Ruidoso, NM this morning and hope to make Elk City, OK this evening and on to the house Friday (Kristina's Birthday). This all hings on my ability to drive 7 and 1/2 hours.

Oh I forgot to tell you that we got to see an ELK last evening. He was a real nice looking young bull probable a 2x2 but a real good looking animal, I did take pictures but as luck would have it it was to dark for them to come out.

Ruidoso, NM 18 AUG 09

We made Ruidoso buy about 3:30pm and are in a nice RV park. It sure is a lot cooler and very pleasant. We have some shade and all. We set things up and took Cooper for a walk. Rested some of the afternoon and then went out for a drive in the Lincoln National Forest. We saw Mule deer right off the bat then Donna said OMGoodness, I said what, she said I think it is a bear. I backed up and sure enough it was a large black bear and another bear behind it a ways. We also saw a large buck and then headed back to town. Stopped in for Kentucy Fried Chicken and then home for the evening. Of course we went out without the camera. Not very smart on my part!!!!!

El Paso, TX 18 AUG 09

We have had a great time in EL Paso visiting with Diana and the boys. We were able to go out to dinner with Diana, Ben and Angila and Gee's girlfriend Karen. It was nice to see Karen again. Diana was able to find a place that was able to evaluate my gold piece. It was a 28 gram chunck of 12 caret gold, not to bad for a find at about 6-8inches deep in the mountains of Colorado. Thankks to Diana for finding a place to get it checked out.
We are on our way north and towards home today not sure just were we will end up today but will be in New Mexico probably.

El Paso TX. 16 AUG 09

We got to Fort Bliss RV park at about 11:00 am and set the RV up. Hot Hot it is Hot!! We got on our way to Diana's house just after 12:00pm. We pulled in the drive and got out of the truck and as Donna was getting Cooper out I was looking over Diana's new Suzuki car. Anthony who had seen us drive in did not have any idea who we were so he went to Diana's room and told her that someone had come up and was looking over her jeep. Diana came to the door along with Anthony and I was standing their. I asked to see Diana and Anthony looked away to tell her as I opened the door and let Cooper in, Diana came around the door and did not recognize me at first until she saw Donna come up behind me. Great Surprise!!! We all sat around and talked for a short while then I said I was Hungary and we headed out to Cracker Barrel for a light lunch. We had ordered our lunch and Diana came up with a plan to get Ben and his girl friend to come over and we would surprise them. It worked and after we finished lunch Ben and his girl friend came by. Sure was great to see Ben and to see just how happy he is with his girl friend. After all that we headed to Discount tires to see and surprise Polo, got there and he was at lunch. Diana called him and he asked how Aunt Donna was. We had left Cooper at the house and he went home for lunch and saw Cooper. Well no surprise but as usual great to see Polo again. We should get to visit more with both boys as they are off Sunday. Back to the house and some time on the computer setting up Diana's Email for her and just talking etc. We decided to go see the new Pug pups that Hilda a friend of Diana's has. We got to Hilda's and the dogs had a great time , but it took the pups a while to take to Cooper because he was breathing so loud it scared them. We sat around and talked and at around 7:00pm decided to go eat. Hilda took us in her Mercadis SUV,what a nice ride. We went to a GREAT Mexican restaurant and had a fabulous meal. Got back to the RV at about 11:15pm and low and behold no power the park had lost power for some reason. We just went too bed and I am not sure when the power was restored.

Leaving South Fork,CO 14 AUG 09

Well today is the day we had been dreading since the day we arrived at South Fork, we were on the road at 0830 headed toward El Paso, TX. We said our good byes to our friends Dale and Donna Fletcher who had invited us on this trip to start with. Dale and Donna were just new friends when this trip started but are now our very good friends from Peculiar, MO. We had just about the greatest time anyone could ever imagine. Dale and Donna are both great travailing companions and we sure hope to make many more trips and adventures with them in the future. It was sure hard to leave their company. (Thanks to you both for the great time!!!)
We arrived at the Lake Side RV Resort in Elephant Butte, NM at about 5:45PM. What a nice park very very clean and just everything in complete order. We are off to El Paso in the morning and are planning on staying at Fort Bliss while we are there. We started our day at 54 degrees and ended it at 86 degrees what a change, Cooper was not a real fan of the change but as usual he is doing well.

Back in South Fork from the Forest 12 AUG 09

We got back in South Fork and are staying at the RV park we were in at the start of this adventure and it sure has been a great one! We have been out in the National Forest for two weeks and have done everything from gold panning and detecting to bird and animal watching. We have done some real enjoyable jeeping in Dales jeep and seen lots of beautiful country doing it. We have made many side trips out and been to Creed, Lake City, Silverton, Pagosa Springs and many of the surrounding areas. The picture of Dale with the Humming bird on his hand and the Orange H.bird in the back ground is just great. Dale drug out the Marshmallows and we enjoyed the great old time favorite roasted marshmallows.
We are going to head south and towards home tomorrow.

Happy Birthday to Mom!! Sunday 09 AUG 09

Happy Birthday to Mom.
Well we are still doing great in the forest. We have been busy taking day trips and mountain rides, lots of beautiful sights. We went over a pass called Engineers Pass it took 4 hours to get down the back side of the mountain. We found out later that the pass should only be taken by experienced 4x4 drivers so I as of now fit that category. It was not real pleasant at the time but we did see lots of old mines and sights. I found two flakes of GOLD yesterday back at Sumitville this time we were using gold pans. What a blast when you can find gold so easily. No real value but sure is pretty in the vile.
This morning it was 25 degrees and it was just beautiful. We was our Buck and Doe again also. Will catch up again soon.

National Forest RIO GRAND

We moved to the national forest last Tuesday and have no internet or phone service BUT we have trout right out the door of the RV. We came into town for laundry and groc. so just a note to let you know we will catch up later. The creek is just behind the RV..