We are camped at a KOA campsite in Alamosa, CO.
Big snow storm north and east of us, so we decided to
stay here for a couple of days. The campers next to us
headed for Denver this morning and turned back.
I thought it would be a good time to post some odds
and ends pictures. They probably won't be in order.
Larry: "Grab your camera and take the picture of that car, it just might
be a Hudson." We never did find out, it went down a different road.
Taken under the St Louis Arch.."The builders of the Arch"
The church near the St. Louis Arch.
We couldn't find a parking place less than a 1/2 mile walk, so pulled
into the parking lot of this church. Sign: No parking for Arch
and No RV's. OOPS One of the priests was in the
parking lot, so Larry said to him, "You look like you
know what's what here. We told him we couldn't find a
place to park close enough for me to walk. He
called the police on his cell phone and told them
that he was letting an RV park in the church parking
lot so he'd know not to ticket it. Nice guy..he didn't
have to do that. Larry asked him if he was preaching
that day and he said with a big smile, he was going to try.
Paxico, Kansas
A nice little town, where we camped. The houses and stores all
looked like they were in the early 1900's. No one was at the office
when we arrived so we just found a spot, parked and hooked up.
We were also the only campers !!! Later the owner stopped by and
came into the MH where we had a nice visit. (and pd for our site)
She told us all about her church, Bible study, ministry etc. It's nice
to meet christians along the way.
Paxico, Kansas
Going down Kested's Mountain Road and this doesn't begin
to show you how steep and scarey it was!
Alan Kested is also a pilot...He is on the right in the picture
(click on picture to enlarge)
These two elk crossed right in front of our car
We took this picture right near the Belgian horse farm. This man
maintains the roads up the mountain. This day he was removing
tree limbs and some trees that fell in the road. He was a character
Note: Smoking a cigarette and pouring gas!
Looking out Kested's window at the Buffalo
(click to enlarge)
Carved Indian on our way to Thompson Canyon
Wild sheep in Thompson Canyon. They had come down the steep
mountain side. We could see more of them on the ledges.
Alan drove us up the mountain past his house and the Belgian
horse farm. The green roof is the horse.farm. It was a narrow
snow road covered road. Only a 4 wheel drive would make it.
At the top of the mountain was a canal and power station that
provides the water for Loveland, Denver
and I think Colorado Springs.
When we went to Estes Park we visited the Stanley Hotel
The Stanley family lived here.The brothers who were twins
invented the Stanley Steamer Car. Here's Larry
drooling over the Stanley. The hotel is beautiful
(see the website above) We walked through it and also had some
coffee and pastries in the visitors snackbar.
It was Saturday when we were there, so we went to
church in town and afterwards the church served
a corn beef and cabbage dinner.
We took this picture from Kested's kitchen window. About 8 of
them showed up the morning we were to leave.
What beautiful animals.
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