July 23 - On the Road Again

July 21.  When you play hard, you must rest hard.  On Sunday July 21, we had our last day visiting with friends.  We spent the morning and early afternoon just relaxing around the RV and then went back up to Hattie's place for another fabulous dinner created by Teddi!  Fried Chicken!  Delicious.  The company again was great, another couple joined us - longtime friends of Teddi and Hattie - and we had a great visit.  A storm rolled in and we enjoyed the lightening show until it started to get a little too close and we hopped in the jeep and headed home.   Hugs and Goodbyes.  Always sad but I know that these friends are friends we will soon see again.

July 22.  No matter if you are on vacation or not, there are housechores to be done.   Monday morning I did the laundry, cleaned up the RV (a small place gets cluttered quickly and I have to stay on top of it) and toured our little campground.  In the afternoon we had lunch in the cute little town and then took a short jeep trip (steep and scary for me... no big deal for John).   The road was very rocky and John REALLY wanted to continue up it another 9 miles, but when the afternoon rain started to fall and we could see lightnening again in the distance we decided to head back. 

Somewhere, between here and there.
This is how I roll!

July 23.  My niece Jennifer and her longtime love, Robbie, live in Buena Vista, Colorado.  It has been our plan all along to meet up with them in our travels as it has been far too long since we have seen each other (2008).  Turns out, Buena Vista is just 75 miles north of Westcliffe!  Instead of heading back the way we came we decided to head up to see Jennifer and Robbie and then take the pass back over to western Colorado.    On Wednesday the 23rd we loaded up and left the RV park just before noon and we were expecting a short trip of no more than 2 hours!  It took us 5!   I really have no idea how except that there was a ton of road construction, we also took a one hour unexpected detour (missed our exit and didn't realize it for a few miles) and we did a little grocery shopping.  Instead of arriving at 3:30 or 4:00 as expected, we got to Buena Vista at 5pm! 

My brother Lee (Jennifer's dad) lives about 3 hours north and he had driven down to meet up with us too so we all got together for dinner in town.   More on this cute town in the next post.  We only had two nights in BV (BOON-UH Vista) so we pretty much enjoyed time with family  . . . but there is so much to do in this cute town. I definitly recommend it to anyone that is looking for an off-the-beaten-path cute town in Colorado to spend a vacation at.

Don't worry- plenty of pictures in the next post.   I have one bar of internet service and downloading these photos is taking me ALL MORNING.   I'm going to save the next couple posts for tomorrow and go get ready for this beautiful day.  RV's around me have all left to their next stops, John is stirring (its 11:45!) and I've been typing for a few hours.  so... see ya... tomorrow.  XO, Always, Oz.