Category: Home to Texas after L&C

We woke up to a sunny morning overlooking the Llano River from our cliff side hotel. Much of our route was along the Llano river this morning. We saw a lots of animals today including deer, (7 dead and 3 alive) a dead pig, rabbit and armadillo. We also witnessed a Bronco brigade. Of course… Continue reading Day 17, Last Leg

The aliens have Billy!!!

Yesterday earwig in my coffee. Last evening scorpion between the beds.Pre sunrise, skunk slinking around restroom. Must be getting closer to Texas. Carlsbad Caverns. A large buck, nice set of antlers, nearly got Paula. Luckily we got in on the second group at 8:45 in the morning. We took the “Natural Entrance Tour” in the… Continue reading Day 16 Caverns, Salt, Desert

Arriving late in Vaughn New Mexico we found all the motels full. After numerous phone calls by Jo Ann, we found an RV park that let us stay in their parking lot. Reclined the seats and covered up with our sleeping bags. The only trouble was no facilities so woke up early and headed to… Continue reading Day 15 Roswell and Carlsbad

Slept in today till 8:00 a record for us and then drove out at 8:45 to beautiful bright sunlight heading east from Monticello and we’re back in farmers fields lands.Stopped in Cortez Colorado and found out that Mesa Verde is open after all, so we’re going to do that today. There was metered visiting into… Continue reading Day 14 Mesa Verde & the Madonna

The area is fantastic if you are interested in science, geology, earth’s formation. I like the long vistas. Sorry photos make them look flat-got to see them in person. The National parks are overcrowded. Hard to find parking space at look outs , especially at trail heads where people park for the day to go… Continue reading Thoughts on Utah

We went 70 miles south today.  But a 245 miles east west up and down. Trip total 5170. We started the day at Arches National Park watching the sun come up and dance on the rock . More about Arches We wore our matching sweatshirts since it was cool and windy. More about Canyonlands Next stop… Continue reading Day 13 Arches, Canyonlands

Left Bryce after doing laundry, heading east on 12. We found a spot looking back to where we had been at Bryce, on top of the mountains here. There were some tiny little towns in very green valleys nearly hidden in the dried up rocky canyons and mountains. Spectacular overlooks of the Escalante National Park… Continue reading Day 12 Escalante & Capital Reef

We spent the day driving to and through the Zion and Bryce National Parks. It was National Parks day with free admission so crowded but still enjoyable. I took so many pictures I don’t know what to post. Here are some I hope will enjoy. Billy hanging out at Zion National Park More about Zion… Continue reading Day 11 Zion and Bryce National Parks

Rutabaga Route While driving through the last of Idaho, we missed our turn to get back on highway… But had a great view over the snake river…. Then drove right next to fields… We head only seen these from afar and did not know what they were.We believe they are rutabagas. (Oct. 3, nope, they… Continue reading Day 10 Utah