THE ADVENTURE HAS STARTED

Last Wednesday we looked at the weather and saw that it was predicting high winds for Monday departure…We decided that we would leave Happy Trails on Saturday and stay ahead of the wind…After packing for two weeks we closed up the house Friday…Friday night we slept in the motor home so we could get an early start…It is always hard for me to sleep the night before one of our adventures…We were ready to depart by six thirty…We traveled from Happy Trails to Grant, New Mexico with some very strong winds…I wanted to go down deep into the Reservation and visit the wolf sanctuary…We pull the Saturn, behind the motor home for our many side trips…We took a picnic lunch because the sanctuary is in the middle of now where…The wind continues to blow and my legs gave out, so we left early…I wanted to get back to Grant and go out for a nice dinner since it was Mother’s Day…We got back to the motor home and rested for a while…Mary Ann got on the computer and looked up some restaurants…We entered the locations into the GPS and started out looking for a steakhouse…Grant seemed to have closed everything that even resembled a restaurant…We saw a Dairy Queen opened, but who wants DQ for Mother’s Day…We drove out to the Interstate and finally found a Denney’s opened…We got back to the motor home and had a big laugh about the day…Well the day ended on a pleasant note with Mary Ann’s girls calling her with long conversations…We knew the wind was catching up with us so we got an early start Monday Morning and drove until the wind blew us off the road…We stopped at an Indian Casino north of Albuquerque, New Mexico…We skipped showers so we could stay ahead of the wind…We wanted to make it to Trinidad, Colorado where we had reservations for two days…We arrived and explored the area that afternoon and went to bed early so we could experience a full day of touring…We had breakfast and started out for a full day of being tourist…We found a restaurant about noon and met some locals and had a relaxed conversation with our lunch…As most of you know I love hamburgers…Mary Ann is not a sandwich person so she got a shrimp basket…We wanted to cut over to the Interstate, 25, and check out places for fueling the motor home…We returned to the motor home after a 130 mile circle…We again, went to bed early and got a decent start before the wind picked up…We knew we had only about 125 mile to go…Now that is yesterday…We set up camp in the Colorado State Park on Cheyenne Mountain…The weather is cold and windy…Rain is falling and some snow flakes are expected…I could not sleep and got up and wanted to bring every one up to date…We will be here until Tuesday where we will head for Chatfield State Park…I guess I woke Mary Ann up because she is at the micro wave making hot chocolate…Talk to you later…Philip