Well, it has finally happened. I am writing about where we are now and what we are doing. We came to Monument, which is just a few miles north of Colorado Springs, as a layover before going to Canon City. Our friends, Dorie and Anne, have a home in Canon City and have invited us to stay there until we leave for Alaska. They have a pad for a motorhome with all of the hookups. (For you non-RV'ers, that means water, electric and even sewer.) We will be able to leave our motorhome with them while we are gone.
Yesterday and today have been catch-up and clean-up days. I worked on getting all of my pictures in order by making the videos of our travels and by bringing all the blogs up to date. I believe have everything up to date now. I have been staring at this screen for 8 hours yesterday and now 8 hours today. Writing the blogs is not difficult; the difficulty is downloading the pictures. I am in an internet area where I have service but it is very slow. As the pictures download, they sometimes get lost in internet space..........and so, after 15 minutes of waiting and hoping, I find out they got lost and I have to start over again. But the rewards are great. We are both enjoying them and we have the journal we have been wanting. And we hope you are enjoying it with us.
Barb worked on cleaning and on the laundry ........ugh! Obviously, I think I got the better deal. She has been getting into all of those corners and crevices. Traveling as we do means that all kinds of dust gets accumulated inside and we do not often do a thorough cleaning as she has done for these two days. The motorhome is shining, the woodwork in polished, the corian shines and the carpets are cleaned. Just like a brand new motorhome.
And then the most wonderful event occurred................Barb prepared breakfast for us for two days in a row. She used the fresh farm eggs and bacon from Karen and Terri and we had a feast. She is really a very good cook!!!!!! What a treat!!!
We are at a great location at this campground, the Colorado Heights RV Resort. We are on the upper level, the one with out the trees, but (1)we have level sites, (2)we can get satellite reception.....and that is most important!, and (3) we have a view of Pikes Peak. We do have tall Pine trees behind us that give us a nice ambience.
So here are our views:
Looking out the front window................ we see Pikes Peak.
And from the side window, we see this mountain range. And these are the huge Pine trees behind us..........
Tomorrow we leave for Dorie and Anne's; they will take us to the Denver airport on August 18 for our Alaska trip. In summary, we fly into Anchorage, take a train to Denali for 3 nights, and then a coach back to Anchorage. Then we fly to Ketchikan for our cruise of the inner passage; 8 nights on a small ship that only holds 105 persons max. Shipline is called CruiseWest. Cruise ends in Juneau and then we fly to Sitka for 4 days to visit our friends, Cheryl and MaryAnn. On Sept 5, we fly back to Denver. We are really looking forward to this trip!
Our love to all of you!!!!
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