Tuesday 17 Sept. Well we finally made it out of Horsetooth but not out of Colorado. We finished packing, hooking up and pulled out at 10am. A very windy day(20-25mph) and the first 20 miles or so were terrible fighting the wind. Once we turned east on highway 34 we had a tail wind and all was
good. A not so long drive to Wray Colorado was nice. As we travel across route 34, how bland eastern Colorado really is. We arrived in Wray (pop 2345) at 3pm and temperature of 100 degrees. The humidity is really low but it is still hot. We settled in and started looking for place to eat dinner and yes there is more than one, six actually but if you take out fast food and sandwich shops there were two left. We went to Creekside Tavern, nice place but not a lot to pick from so we settled on pizza and it was pretty good. Tomorrow we will hit the other place. We drove around town(2 miles each way) then back to the house. We walked Rudy and surprisingly the temperature drops quickly as the sun sets. Diane was finishing the Blog last night when she noticed an email from the renters. Thinking it was about this months rent, she opened it, but the news is they are moving out. Needless to say, it was a restless nights sleep, need to change all our plans and re-group.
Wednesday 16 Sept. Here we are with all day to spend in Wray. We went to the Wray liquor store looking for wine but didn't like either brand they had. We did wash the car stopped at the grocery store and walked through the town parks. The Wray museum was bigger and more interesting than we ever thought it would be. The lady running it was very knowledgeable she highlighted several things to us. One was the story was how they managed to have a 150 year old piano that was left in an old sod house because it wouldn't fit in the owners new house and was discovered by a man out duck hunting. And the other was artifacts from an Indian battlefield (Beecher Island) just outside of town and they still hold a reunion with descendants from both sides. We headed back to the camper cooked the steaks we bought at the little grocery store, they were fresh and very good. We had to wait until the sun started to set before grilling as the temperature was still reaching almost 100 degrees.
Thursday 17 Sept. We were pulling out of campground by 9:30 but stopped for diesel fuel and
were back on the road by 9:45, this included waiting for the longest train ever. We are heading to
WaKeeney along I 70 which should have bigger and better services/selections than in Wray. Another very warm day and wind picked up as we drove so we stopped at the first campground on our list pulling in around 3pm local time. The campground is a KOA, nice, the usual close sites, but at least you can walk around. We did a quick drive through town, only to find out that it's smaller than Wray, just our luck. It was 90 again, but if you walked slow and find the shade whenever possible, it wasn't bad walking. Once the sun started to go down, so did the temperature, so 2 or 3 more trips around the CG with Rudy...I think more for us than for him. By 7:30 the campground was almost full including several high end campers the biggest a 2015 Newell(a million plus rig) and it is towing a Hummer H3.
On the Road back to PA,
Brad, Diane and Rudy
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| Nice CG in Wray, CO! |
Wednesday 16 Sept. Here we are with all day to spend in Wray. We went to the Wray liquor store looking for wine but didn't like either brand they had. We did wash the car stopped at the grocery store and walked through the town parks. The Wray museum was bigger and more interesting than we ever thought it would be. The lady running it was very knowledgeable she highlighted several things to us. One was the story was how they managed to have a 150 year old piano that was left in an old sod house because it wouldn't fit in the owners new house and was discovered by a man out duck hunting. And the other was artifacts from an Indian battlefield (Beecher Island) just outside of town and they still hold a reunion with descendants from both sides. We headed back to the camper cooked the steaks we bought at the little grocery store, they were fresh and very good. We had to wait until the sun started to set before grilling as the temperature was still reaching almost 100 degrees.
Thursday 17 Sept. We were pulling out of campground by 9:30 but stopped for diesel fuel and
were back on the road by 9:45, this included waiting for the longest train ever. We are heading to
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| WaKeeney, KS KOA CG....not bad!! |
On the Road back to PA,
Brad, Diane and Rudy
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