Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 93

Sam and Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 93

Mid-West

4/27/09 – To Pueblo –Oops! Cripple Creek, Colorado

It was cold last night and the ground is wet.  We are having a hard time saying good-bye and stay ‘asleep’ until both Ray and Lori have left for work.  We came to visit relatives and we are leaving good friends who happen to be relatives.  I am going to miss Lori, Ray, Troy, Tracey, Harley and Alex very much. Lori – you keep in touch! 

Treasure Falls

As we start putting the trailer on Brutus, the trailer rebelled and started slipping, causing damage to the jacks that hold it stable.  I do not think that I stopped it from totally dropping off the blocks, but I did try.  Sam was able to get hooked up, with the help of some of Ray’s tools and off we went.  We drove out to the main road, turned left and passed through Bayfield where we wave at Troy, Tracey and the girls.  Thanks to all of you for a wonderful time! 

Brutilla

We head up Highway 160.  The scenery is so beautiful.  We start climbing.  The treeful, big mountains are sprinkled with snow patches. It is beginning to look like November instead of April. We stop at Treasure Falls to watch the water fall 105 feet into the rocks below. Ouzels live here and bob along the bottom of running streams, just like they do in the Siuslaw Mountain streams back home. Fun to watch. Almost frozen streams rush down the mountainsides anxious to meet up with other streams, until they are big enough to be given a name of their own.  Brutilla keeps clicking up the altimeter numbers until they are well over 10,000. I think she is trying to keep me busy while Sam is driving.  Full grown rocky mountains, covered with trees, spattered with snow and rocks too far away to pocket.  At one point, a river bursts out of the snow – right beside me, just to disappear a few feet and seconds later. So quick! So fantastic! So awesome! God is great! This is still part of the San Juan Mountains. Park Creek running into the Rio Grande Forest. Southfork (the town) at 8180 feet and beautiful blue sky. Through Alamosa, staying on this most scenic road until Walsenburg, where we turn left again.  On to Pueblo. When we reach there, we decide we have not had enough and need a little more adventure. 

Getting There

We include Brutilla in the discussion and decide to go UP again!  We pass the exit to Eden, around Colorado Springs and through Woodland Park.  Circling a cloud-hidden Pikes Peak, we turn left yet again onto a frosty, narrow road that leads up around the sides of mountains. I am not sure how Sam could drive Brutus, pulling the trailer over the black ice, with darkness falling, as I had my eyes closed.  When I asked Sam, he said he did not know either, as he had his eyes closed too.  We made it.  Found a RV park that was open and willing to give us tips on how to keep our water works from freezing overnight. Now this is adventure!! Yes it is!!