Monthly Archives: July 2011

We arrived early afternoon on the 4th of July at Riverside Resort & RV Park in Durango, Colorado. The kids were more excited for this stop than usual because their cousin, Joe, a recent college graduate living in Gunnison, Co. was coming to spend the night with us. We went into Durango for their 4thContinue reading “Zip Lines, Bulls and Rafts, Oh My!”

(Finally got decent internet connections – updated post with pics) Our next stop after Amarillo was a dot on the map called Mosca, CO.  Mosca is home to Great Sand Dunes National Park. We stayed at the Great Sand Dunes Oasis – just one mile outside of the park.  We made the drive down theContinue reading “Playing in the Sand”

We started our last day in Texas with an early hike around the rim of Palo Duro Canyon. This 3 mile trail was amazing and we got so many great pictures, we can’t even post them all. It was much cooler and the panhandle has a constant wind so it was a nice way toContinue reading “No "kicks" on Route 66”

We left Memphis on Wednesday at 4:30 am and made it to Amarillo, Texas by 5:00 p.m. Jeff managed to put over 200 miles behind us before the kids even woke up. I drove the last 375 miles of our 755 mile run to give him a chance to rest. We splashed around in theContinue reading “Feeling hot, hot, hot!!!”