Last days in the High Country

Friday June 14, 2019

We had breakfast.  Then we got ready and headed over to Idaho Springs, CO.  We headed out of the CG and decided to take the back road to town 'Oh My Gawd' (yes that was the name of the road) 

A cute park in town!!

....we should have known better.  The road started out decent enough, but about 2 miles into it, it took a turn for the worse, it got really twisty and very steep.  A couple of times we both inhaled as we got to a corner or lost sight of the road due to a down hill slope.....but the total drive was only 5 miles (30 min.) 12% grades and we made it.  We got to Idaho Springs, found a parking spot and headed up the street.  The only way to describe this place is basically a 'Tourist Trap'.  We stopped at the famous pizza place for lunch, pizza was good, service, not so much, an actually spent about 3 hours walking through town and made a few purchases.  We headed home via the interstate, walked Rudy, had a snack for dinner, then texted Shari to make plans for Saturday.  

Saturday June 15, 2019

Brad and I with the

O'Donnell Crew!!

We had a quick breakfast and headed out to meet Shari and crew at the 'Dude Fishing Hole' for a little hike to the pond and some fishing.  What Shari neglected to tell us was this hike was down hill for about a mile, which meant the hike out will be a mile walk up hill.  We only stayed about an hour back at the fishing hole and it really was a nice, slow hike out. Need to have a little talk with Shari about hikes for old people.  After that we headed back to Shari's for Chicken, asparagus, and a veggie medley of Kale/onion/mushroom and jalapenos (it was actually pretty good).  We hung out there until about 6:30 then said our good-byes and headed home.  The highlight of the day was Maddie came home and went fishing with us and then while we were at Matt and 

Shari's Makira came home and we had a nice time with her.  It's been a nice 3 weeks visiting with the O'Donnell's and we will miss them when we head out. On the way home we spotted 6 mule deer (bucks) walking along the road.  One was very nice buck.

Sunday June 16, 2019

Happy Father's Day to all.  It's a beautiful morning here, so it was little smokies and eggs on the grill for breakfast. The smokies we bought at a local butcher and we must of picked up the jalapeno version. They were so hot we could hardly eat them, but we did.  After that we worked around the Moho doing laundry and packing getting ready for the move tomorrow.  After 2 loads of laundry I remembered that we were going to a state park, without water and sewer, so I had one more load I needed to do, but first a ride through a couple of CG's near by.  We headed out about 12:00 first to a CG at the Arapaho National Forest, then into the Golden Gate Canyon State Park, first we stopped at the Visitors Center then off to the Reverends Ridge CG.  We actually stopped at the park office and asked about the Volunteer positions....it's not that far from the O'Donnell's.  After that we headed up route 119 towards Nederland and ended up stopping at 'Roy's Last Shot Bar and Grill' for lunch.  It took forever to get served but as it turned out, the food was fabulous and the entertainment was quite interesting.  Now the entertainment wasn't inside it was outside, we were having such bad weather and the amount of hail coming down was unbelievable.  It actually looked like there was snow on the ground 'til it quit.  After that we headed home, walked Rudy and watched the storms go all around us and yes some of them hit us.  Just before dark the sky out the front windshield looked pretty awesome, now all is calm and it's time to relax and then off to bed.  

The Hail Storm and then the eastern sky at sunset....kind of scary.