Tuesday
Well I am getting so busy I can't keep up with the Blog!!!!
Sally is now getting into overdrive with her new camera and it can now take hours to sort photo's. So now at least we are getting pictures of me as well as Sally. Keep it up Sally.
So, to pick up a weeks worth of travel!
Here is a thought about the roads we were traveling,as they are famous in USA. Everyone has heard of Route 66, and sometime ago I wrote a bit about U.S. Route 2, but here are some more that we have been traveling on recently
U.S. Route 550
From Chaco all the way up through Farmington, Durango and Ridgway to Montrose we had been traveling on Route 550, a North/South Road, which would take you from Albuquerque to Montrose, its most famous stretch being the 'Million Dollar Highway' between Silverton and Ouray. A route that has the Red Mountain Pass,which is notorious as a difficult mountain pass road, read the description of it in WikiPedia (yes they even describe roads), many RV people will not even attempt the road. WE ARE TOUGH though. Route 550 ends at Montrose, when it meets Route 50.
U.S. Route 50
Route 50 (see Wikipedia) is an East West road which is traceable from San Francisco right to Ocean City on the Atlantic Coast in Maryland. We have actually travelled on it when we drove up to Lake Tahoe, then again where it merges with I70, but separates briefly to go through Green River, which we travelled on to get a cof/T in Green River in October 2014.
We were due to be in Silverthorne, near Breckenridge, for the weekend of the 25th to see our niece Sarah and our great niece, Brianna, so we planned to take three stops. Ridgway to Silverthorne being about 230 miles. However on Monday we decided to take a side trip to Black Canyon NP, and stay overnight, that would still leave us more than 200 miles. It is worth remembering here that we were still fighting the seasons. Since coming up into the Rockies the weather had turned cold, it was below freezing every night. The trick was to find a campground that was actually open and had hook ups, but wasn't a real dive with lots of permanent residents. Ridgway SP had some, so we had stayed there, Black Canyon NPS website said that it did not, except one site on B loop that was ADA, yet on arriving we found that not it was not only the ADA site that had electricity , but that all of B loop was open and empty. Fortunate really, as the ADA site was very small, ADA may well have stood for American Dwarf Adapted.
This is trip 15, in 2015! We arrived in Phoenix (AZ) on March 25th and traveled North and East, taking in Jerome, Mogollon Rim, Zuni (NM), El Morro, Farmington, Durango (CO), Ridgway, Black Canyon NP, Breckenridge and Golden. Moving North from there we have been to Fort Collins, Laramie (WY), Cheyenne, Fort Laramie, Chadron (NE), and on to Custer (SD) to explore The Black Hills, as far North as Devil's Tower (WY). From there we have driven East to Dreadwood,then on to pickup our mail in Box Elder before exploring The Badlands NP. We have been to the capital Pierre (SD Capital), before driving North up the Missouri to Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota. We have finished towing by driving via Fargo and Sauk Centre to Minneapolis, where we will clean and store the rig, ready for us when we return for Trip 16 in the Fall (DV). On this trip we have towed the trailer just over 2800 miles.
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