Territory Days

Friday we drove to Denver and dropped Jody off at the airport, it was a very large airport. We then checked out the place where we have a June 10 appointment to have the trailers axle checked out.

Saturday we drove 5 miles to Colorado Springs and went to Territory Days, a 3 day Memorial Day celebration of Colorado's first territorial capitol. There were a few characters wandering around, lots of festive food, crafts and more crafts, and music. Late in the afternoon we went for a walk on the trail behind the CG and stopped at Subway for supper. Sunday we went to church then Judy did the laundry while I watched the F1 and Indy 500 races. It has rained and thundered off an on all day. The folks next to us were evicted for letting their kids and dog run wild, that was the excitement.

Pikes Peak, Manitou Springs, Garden of the Gods

As you will see I don't have the picture placement mastered!!!!

Wednesday late afternoon we toured the Garden of the Gods, it's about a mile from our campground. A very impressive free city park.

On Wednesday we got two new tires for the RV after the toilet broke. We have the RV tech over and he's ordering a cable. We can still use it, just have to pour some water in it first. In the afternoon the ladies took my to a local park and one of Manitou Springs 11 springs. You take a glass or containers and fill them up. I went to Seven Minute Spring (name comes from the fact the pump only runs for 7 minutes) and the water is naturally carbonated. It comes with it's own fizz!

Tuesday we took the cog railway to the top of Pikes Peak, sounded better that driving the truck way up there. The trip was interesting but the 1 1/4 hour 9 mile trip each way wasn't comfortable at an angle on slippery wood seats. At the top we had some good donuts baked up there and before we left for the return trip it started to snow, get us otta here!

Colarado Springs & blowout

We made it to Pikes Peak RV Park just outside Colorado Springs and plan on staying here until after Memorial Day & do some exploring. Jody will be here until Friday when she flies back to Mobile. Temps were up to 88 today until a small thunderstorm blew through this evening. We had a nice dinner across the street at an Italian place after another long day.

After the hard work of picking up the pieces the ladies decided it was time to take a tan & relax.

A little excitement today as we were cruising down a hill on a two lane road in Colorado but all went well considering what could have happened. Our first blowout. We heard it and easily pulled over, minor damage to the RV, a call to Good Sam Emergency Road Service and we were on our way in 2 1/2 hours.

Traveling

We covered 318 miles westward today to Oakley, KS. For us that's a lot of miles. The CG is just an overnighter beside the expressway but we got a couple pictures at an antique shop next door and Jody liked the cows. Not much around here.

Picked up the doc.......

Doc Jody & Doc Heather in Kansas City for the Family Medicine chief resident seminar.

Judy & Greg in Kansas City with George Washington in Washington Square.

Today we went into Kansas City and picked up Jody and her friend Heather. They were in KS for a medical seminar for new chief residents. We then met Steve Billings (he's a slave driver, no mercy at all, we've had lunch twice with him in the last couple weeks but he's so mean he makes Suzy work all the time, she's probably starving!) and the 5 of us went out to Jack's Stack House for BBQ lunch, very good. We then dropped Heather off at the airport then Judy, the doc, and I returned to our place on Clinton Lake at the COE campground. NO rain today, all sun but only mid 60s.

MAN, am I glad we are not in a tent! We do need an ark.

Yesterday we took our HitchHiker in for some toilet service. That's important you know. The bowl wasn't holding water (we didn't want it to hold any of that other stuff) and NuWa replaced some parts they had received from Thetford. While it was in the shop we went to the Grain Bin with Jeff & Susan and another couple so Judy could have one of her favorites....pecan waffles. We returned to the city campground at 3:30 and set up camp and then went to see Star Trek in Chanute. Boy, that was a real good movie that all 4 of us enjoyed. This morning we packed up and left about 10am for Clinton Lake outside Lawrence, KS and a COE (Corp of Engineers) park. It was REALLY windy and fortunately we had a tail wind most of the way north. The last 15 miles we were into the wind or had a cross wind that was not fun. It was 84 when we arrived at noon and sunny. Now, 6pm & 66 degrees, it been raining VERY hard with lots of hail since 2:30. Two big time thunderstorms have passed over us and the rain was coming down in buckets....really. Hopefully it will stop soon and the sat TV will get a signal, I'm pleased the Sprint Internet card is working. When, IF, it stops raining I'll get a couple pictures of this place for you to view. It is a very nice COE park in the boonies.

Back to Chanute, KS....in the rain of course

We had a relaxing Saturday in Chicken Creek then on Sunday Jeff & I pulled his HitchHiker to Chanute as he has a service appointment and his truck is still in the Ford garage with a cracked head. We all stopped at a BBQ joint and Jeff treated us to a nice BBQ dinner....Judy loves BBQ. Judy & Susan followed in their rental car and then Judy and I made the 190 mile return trip. Monday we did the laundry, had dinner with Wes & Tonia to say goodbye and started packing up. Tuesday we made the trip back to Chanute with our HH in the pouring rain arriving about 2pm. After setting up we said HI to Jeff & Susan again then stopped at Subway for dinner.
On Wednesday we towed Jeff & Susan's HH to the HiLo furniture shop so they could remove their hide-a-bed from their sofa and replaced it with storage boxes. Another thunderstorm skirted us this evening and we'll be taking our HH in tomorrow to have a little work done on the toilet now that parts have arrived. Look our Jody.....you are next on our list!!!!