Summer 2023

To get to Denver we had to cross the Monarch Pass. Our campground was Bear Creek Lake Campground which also has two Soda lakes. You could learn to ski behind a motorboat, kayaks, SUPs. And lots and lots of concrete bike trails. We stayed five nights on Bear Creek Lake campground. Red Rock theater was 4 miles away. They were preparing for someone to preform that evening. We could walk the trail and see some of the rocks. We also saw our one and only rattlesnake. We visited Hudson Garden and enjoyed all the ponds and sculptures. There was an adventure lab within the gardens with a bonus geocache. The double rainbow from our Bear Creek Lake camp spot. At 6:00 a.m. Saturday morning we started moving towards East planned on traveling about 400 miles and then staying for two nights. This was our first stop in Nebraska. Nice enough campsite but don't always want to believe Google maps. She took us down gravel roads and we didn't have to do that.

Telluride was a beautiful little town and you rode and gondolas to get there from the village. Free parking free ride all the way down If you look closely at the cornet Creek flood plaque above you'll see that a house was actually knocked off of its foundation. They use mules to get it back on. The picture below is the current house. We moved to elk Creek for 4 days We walked down pine canyon 232 steps to a beautiful River Walk. People use rubber rafts to ride Gunnison River and fish In Gunnison we went to the pioneer museum which had anything that you can think of from telephones photographs the cars the trains to washing machines pressure cookers wedding dresses. They had one building that was devoted to Coors Salida Colorado was very interesting seemed as though the whole town was down by the river. Many were surfing on the river or tubing. This was an interesting fiberglass trailer that someone had customized and even had wings.