We had a wonderful week at Rockaway RV Park, on the shores
of Inks Lake in the Texas hill country. We had
the grandkids for a while, and then parents showed up a few days later. What a great and relaxing time!
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Aiden, Lucy and Papaw about to enter Longhorn Caverns! |
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Algae on the rocks outside the cave entrance. |
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Aiden and Lucy sure enjoyed helping the tour guide! |
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Lucy said this part of the cave looked like vanilla ice cream. |
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Sunset view from our campsite. |
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Aiden and Lucy checking out the baby catfish at the Inks Lake National Fish Hatchery. |
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The explorers at Buchanan Dam |
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We had great camping neighbors that let our grandkids play with their toys. |
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A view of our campground from the bridge. |
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The old bridge, complete with a huge swing! |
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Lucy with baby Marshall |
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They kept baiting the hog traps, so...…. |
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Aiden wanted to go play a little shuffle board. |
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Which led to a game of pool. |
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Another beautiful sunset |
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Ron's new swimming friend |
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Amy trying to paddle with Aiden's kayak. |
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Aiden driving everyone around. |
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Colorado River view |
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Aiden and his sister Courtney |
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Someone popped out of bed and went and shot a pig! |
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Target practice |
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The dock on the river. Just beautiful! |
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My beautiful Double L girls - Liz and Lucy! |
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My beautiful girls, Liz and Amy |
It was a little hard to say good-bye because we have been
“home” a little longer than expected. But nevertheless, we were VERY excited to
get this motorhome out on the highway and really see how she does. And the
results are in…….This is absolutely the best mode of transportation we have
experienced in our travels. Our
motorcoach rides so smooth. I love being able to sit in my recliner and watch
the highway go by. When you’re perched
up higher, you get a much better view.
My chair has a lap table so if I want to, I can drag out the computer
and work on a travel blog, or whatever I might need to do on the ipad or
laptop. Enough of that. Here’s where our travels up to our summer
volunteer position in South Fork, Colorado have taken us.
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Comfy ride! |
We left Rockaway RV Park in Burnet (on Inks Lake) with our
destination of Abilene State Park. We
aim to keep our travel days to 3 or 4 hours, so this was a great
destination. It’s been about 10 years
since we visited here. Now that we’re
retired, we are able to park the RV and then go check out the sights. We haven’t really explored Abilene
before. I always check out TripAdvisor
to see what is recommended. Therefore,
we chose to go to Frontier Texas! This is a very fun place to go! It’s all about legends, history and adventure,
presented in very well done multimedia displays. It really does bring the old
west to life! They use holograms to portray stories from cowboys, Indians,
buffalo hunters and Indian captives. Fascinating. A must see if you haven’t
stopped here before.
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This place is a must see! |
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Buffalo skulls |
I also decided to treat Ron to an early Father’s Day dinner
so I googled for the best Mexican food in town and all the votes were for
Abuela’s. And it did not
disappoint! Wonderful! And we made it during happy hour and had
really good margaritas half price! We
walked around the park that evening after it cooled off and took a peak at Lake
Abilene. They do have lots of the red
cliffs here that are so pretty.
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Yummy margaritas! |
On Thursday we decided to travel to Bottomless Lakes
State Park near Roswell, NM.
We have been here before and remember it being very nice. They have 50
amp sites that are first come first serve (and they were pull through which
isn’t a big deal) but why were all these sites filled with non 50 amp needing
rigs such as pop up trailers and very small RVs? Oh well, we chose a nice site with 30
amp. This means we can only run 1 air
conditioner at a time. So yep, it was a
little warm with the bright sunshine, no shade, and 100+ degrees. No worries, we pulled the night shades down
and went to Roswell to go explore.
Decided to go to the Roswell International UFO Museum and
Research Center. All’s what I
can say is that it does make you wonder just a little.
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My new friends! |
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Such a pretty lake! |
When we got back to our campsite, we decided we needed to go
for a swim in Lea Lake (where we’re parked by) to cool off. It was awesome and refreshing!!
Friday our destination was going to be Ft. Sumner, New
Mexico. We were thinking the state park,
but again they didn’t have 50 amp and it’s a little hot out here today. In town is a very nice RV park by the Billy
the Kid Museum. If you’re
here, you really need to include a couple of hours to tour this museum. So enjoyable!
It’s not only about Billy the Kid, but about what life was like out here
back in the 1800’s. They have a little
bit of everything here. We also went and
visited Billy the Kid’s gravesite and the Bosque Redondo museum. This is where thousands of Navajo and
Mescalero Apache people were forced to go. It tells of the trials they went
through.
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At this museum, which is really great, you will find a little bit of everything! |
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Billy the Kid's gravesite |
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Yummy dinner. We finally got to grill a steak because we were in a private campground and fire restrictions were a little easier. |
On Saturday our travel destination was Trinidad State Park,
right inside the Colorado border. I will
say this about Trinidad – there are quite a few marijuana stores in town, and
it shows. But I am not going to get on a soap box about how that has changed
the town. Finally, getting into some
cooler weather. Trinidad Lake is
beautiful. The state park here is very
nice and we really enjoyed.
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Beautiful view of Trinidad lake from our campsite! |
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Our home sweet home at our campsite. |
Sunday we arrived at Alpine Trails RV Park, our
volunteer spot for the summer! Very
happy to see our friends Roy and Brenda who we previously volunteered with at Garner State Park in
Texas. We will be hosting with them. And the owners, JoyceAnn and
Rodney Reed are delightful! We got
settled in and got to enjoying the park.
There’s so much to see and do in this area, I doubt we will get it all
done this summer. It’s just spring time
here so on Monday we went and bought some beautiful hanging baskets. Ron built me two planting boxes so put
tomatoes and peppers in one, and flowers in the other. We will be working a 4 on and 4 off schedule,
so Tuesday we started “work”. It’s a
very nice, easy pace here. Most of the
folks here are retired and spend every summer here. They have been very accepting of us and
invited us into their extended family.
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This is our front porch view! |
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Got to get what I love to do! Help landscape the front of the office! |
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Eating lunch at Pagosa Springs with some of our fellow campers! |
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Yep.....altitude change for us! |
Over the weekend on our first day off, we decided to drive
up to Creede and do the Bachelor Loop Historic and Scenic Byway. Beautiful scenery! There’s so much mining
history here and remnants of the booming mining times. I will let most of the pictures just speak for themselves.
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Look for the deer! |
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Really liking the jeep on these back roads! |
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What a construction project! |
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Have to look for the marmot! |
Sunday after church friends David and Barbara Matthews
invited us to go with them on their UTV on a ride up the mountainside here by
the campground. Breathtaking
scenery. Lots of dust (very, very dry
here) but lots of fun and memories made.
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Having fun!!! |
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South Fork in the valley |
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I look a little dangerous! |
Until next time!
Wow, you guys have been busy and on the move! I bet it will be nice to be stationary for a while. Such beautiful scenery in that area for you to enjoy!
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