And the beauty of Arches National Park, Utah

Despite the heat the park was gorgeous

 

 

 

 

And this is the view from our campsite:

 

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Goodbye Lake City, hello Arches!

We had the best time in Lake City with our friends. It actually felt like coming home. Great to see folks at the Pleasant View Resort and wonderful to see all the mountains and flowers. It was quite cold there, which we loved. It actually got down to about 38 degrees when I walked Sophie early one morning! We jeeped and hiked part of the Colorado trail and ate lots! A true fun vacation.

This morning we drove to Arches National Park area and will soon visit it. Right now we are doing a quick laundry and coping with the heat. We woke to 40degrees and it is now 94! A killer...I know I will never live in this kind of heat if I can help it.

Below are a few more pictures from the last few days:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So much to share!

We have been without Internet and phone most of this week so haven't posted, but what a wonderful week it has been with friends Kathie and Harry Palmer and Wilma and Tom Vuono. We've wandered around in Nederland, camped at Gunnison and hiked and explored Crested Butte, and have been Jeeping and hiking in Lake City. Since Internet is poor I will try to post just a couple of pictures

 

 

More to come soon!

 

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The bunny did it!

The car is now all fixed and no major problems....it was a bunny that ate through critical wires connected to the transmission. Moth balls are now under the car as we certainly don't want that to happen again! And the RV is now good to go too.

It has been surprisingly cool and rainy here so we took some nice drives and looked at a few houses on the market. One was so far out we even found a burro wandering the road! Today we went to Georgetown, a cute old mining town just off of rt. 70 but with a real remote feeling...wonderful galleries and a great little restaurant for lunch.

Below are a few images from our drives:

 

Georgetown

And then there are the many, many magpies that crow next to our camper ALL the time:)

 

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Oh dear...

So today has not started off too well. Don noticed that we have a break problem with the RV (the caliper gets stuck sometimes???) . He spent quite a bit of time finding a mechanic who can fix it tomorrow. We decided to go out in our car to find the place ahead of time and found our car too has problems! The transmission light went on and it was very hard to shift. We are now at a Honda dealer for that waiting for a ride home to our RV. Apparently this could be due to the towing...scary as this is a pretty new car (2013 with few miles on it)

Guess we are lucky that we have a couple of days to deal with all of this. ...

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Happy July 4

Woke up at 6:30 to see a hot air balloon right from our camper!

 

Drove into Denver when there was no traffic, such a lovely city!

Then we drove on Rt.70, also with no traffic to Frisco right before the parade...great with a beer and pulled pork sandwich....

 

 

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Chatfield State Park

We arrived at Chatfield State Park yesterday and were so happy with the campground...lots of space between campers, milder temperatures, beautiful views and paths near the mountains. We are in Littleton, just a little south and west of Denver. The plan has been to explore this area but we may end up just relaxing and enjoying the scenery instead.

Today we explored Morrison and the Evergreen area which I loved! It was my fantasy mountain town, unfortunately the budget probably doesn't fit housing.

We will be here for over a week before our hiking buddies, Kathy and Harry, Tom and Wilma arrive so I hope we may the most of this area. It is impressive.

Below are just a few shots taken from the campground:

 

 

 

 

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