As I write this, we are sitting in line at a Speedco (think Jiffy Lube only for BIG trucks) just south of Indianapolis. We’ll get our oil changed, get the RV washed at the Blue Beacon Truck Wash next door,…
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Wrap Up
Are you tired of reading about the Balloon Fiesta yet? I hope not…there’s more! Gas Balloons One afternoon a special class called “Gas Balloons” were filled. These are balloons filled with Hydrogen instead of hot air. It takes a whole…
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – Crewing
As I mentioned in my previous post, the Escapee Boomer’s group has a reputation at the Balloon Fiesta. That includes the Boomer’s success in providing crews when needed. Our first exposure to ballooning happened the day before the Balloon Fiesta…
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta – the basics
Wow. Just WOW. The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta has been on our bucket list for many years. We decided this year it was going to happen. It’s the LARGEST hot air balloon festival in the world. This event was one of…
Mesa Verde National Park
Our last stop in Colorado was Mesa Verde National Park. Mesa Verde was named a National Park in 1906 by Teddy Roosevelt (Thank you Mr. President) and contains some of the best preserved Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites in the United…
Colorado Scenic Byways
We have spent the last two weeks in Colorado. We have avoided the eastern half of the state (Denver and the plains) and instead have been exploring the “West Slope.” We tripped over a brochure called Colorado – The Official…
20 gallons is NOT enough!
This is one of those “don’t do what we did” blog posts. We traveled from Douglas, Wyoming to Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Diesel fuel in Colorado is about 50 cents a gallon cheaper than in Wyoming. So it made sense to…
Two more stops in Wyoming
If you recall from the last blog post, we stopped in Gillette to get a new toilet (love it!!!). We took time to see a couple of sights before we left the area. On the town’s tourism website, they list…
Devil’s Tower
Devil’s Tower is this hunk of hard rock sticking up from the Wyoming plains. We were here in 2006 for a quick (1 hour) visit. This time we wanted to do it justice. First, we were able to get into…
Riding a UTV out of Deadwood
Deadwood We prolonged our visit to the Black Hills a few more days because…we wanted to rent a UTV! A UTV is a Utility Task Vehicle. It should be called a Let’s-use-up-fossil-fuels-to-tour-the-Black-Hills-National-Forest Vehicle. There were so many of these around,…