Wednesday, September 26 - Travel Day (Gunnison, CO)

 

We left Mountaindale at 9:15 this morning traveling west on Highway 50. As we passed the river on Hwy 50, I was reminded of what a good time we had riding the river on our raft trip earlier this summer.

We stopped in Salida so the boys and Jesse could tinkle.

We traveled up Monarch Pass and had some really beautiful scenery.

My traveling companion, isn’t he just the cutest!!

We stopped in Gunnison so Jesse could fuel up the truck and continued on another 11 miles down the road. We drove 162 miles and arrived at Gunnison Lakeside Resort, elevation 7,683 at 1pm.

We quickly got checked in at the Passport America rate of $42.27 (including tax) for 2 nights.

I made us a sandwich and we sat enjoying our lunch.  We got set up all except for the satellite which Jesse was having problems. He was getting very frustrated. He noticed some other dish set-up and it was pointing in a different direction, so he pointed ours there and finally got it set-up.

We had a nice evening just relaxing at home.

Tuesday, September 25 - Extending a Day (Colorado Springs, CO)

 

Saturday we drove further down the road stopping in Colby, KS for the night at the Fair Ground. Mostly is was a dirt parking lot - full hook-up for $20.00 a night.

Sunday we were out by 8:15 and drove into Colorado. With the time change we arrived at Mountiandale right at noon. There was no one in the office, but no problem we knew which site we were staying in so we just parked in site 78.

After getting set up we walked down to the office to get our mail and my new Kindle Fire. A line appeared in my about 1/3 down the screen. Jesse called them and they said they would send me a new one and send me a return label for the old one.

We just relaxed then got dressed to go out for dinner. Today was our 33 wedding anniversary and we decided to go to Outback. We had a very nice meal. Afterward we stopped at the food store to pick up some dessert to take home.

Monday we were up and took our time getting showered and dressed. We stopped by the office and saw the gang then went into town.

Our 1st stop was at the UPS store to return the old Kindle. Then we stopped at Chili’s for some lunch. Then we went to Target. Jesse wanted to look for Bluetooth pieces to use with our phones when we are driving. They didn’t have anything that Jesse liked and the employee was not very helpful.

We went over to Radio Shack, the young man was very helpful and we purchased two Samsung units. I will let you know how we like them.

We stopped and got fuel in the car and got the car washed. Of course it started to rain on the way back to the campground. It rained for about 15 minutes then cleared up, but it stayed cool.

We took our sheets down to the laundry and I went into the office to work with Keith on a project. Chris was also in the office manning the phones and learning to take reservations.

We said our good-byes to everyone and we went back home.

There were new shows on TV tonight so we watched TV all evening.

Today were up and enjoying our coffee and computering.

Jesse looked at the weather forecast and it was suppose to rain most of the day in Gunnison which is where we were heading.

So we decided to stay another day and leave tomorrow.

Plans made in jello (always wiggle room)  Love it!!

Friday, September 21 - Good-byes and moving down the road (Lyndon, KS)

 

We were dressed and packed up some of our things for travel.

Then we went over to the hospitality room for the farewell breakfast. They served sausage biscuits, cinnamon and pumpkin buns, orange juice and coffee.

We sat with our group and visited. We got hugs and said our “see ya down the road” to all of our friends.

Back at the rig we finished packing up and left the fair grounds at 10:15am.

We had an uneventful day traveling 152 miles.

We are parked at Crossroads RV Park & Campground at the Passbook America rate of $14.00. Jesse said we had stayed here before, but I don’t remember. Some overnight campgrounds are just not memorable.

Don’t misunderstand me, there is nothing wrong with this campground. It’s just a place to spend the night.