Back Home In Houston

Mon, 1 Oct `12:   Arrived home.

 

And here is the summer route.

Back In Dallas to Visit Ginger

Thur, 27 Sep `12:   Stopping in Dallas to visit with daughter Ginger on our way back to Houston.  Friday we took in the State Fair.

 

Big Tex Is Always at the Fair

 

Never saw a four horned sheep before or is it a goat?

 

Return To Denver

Mon, 17 Sep `12: We left Dubois Sunday morning and spent the night in Cheyenne. We are now in Denver at Chatfield State Park to spend a few days with Robin, Jeff and grandbaby Siena. We will be heading towards Dallas on 26 Sep to visit daughter Ginger and then back home to Houston on 1 Oct.

Grandmother with Grandbaby

 

Baby sitting in the RV

 

Balloons at the RV Park

 

What happens when you over-think a problem

 

 Chatfield State Park

 

Back in Dubois

Tue, 21 Aug12:  Returned to Dubois, WY after a whirlwind trip to Denver for the birth of Siena Marie.  Siena weighted 5 lb 13 oz at birth, on her two week checkup  she weighed 7 lb 4 oz!!

Robin had several pics made a few days ago.  See below for our favorite.

 Guest at the RV

 

Denver, CO – Grandbaby Watch

Wed, 8 Aug`12:  Drove from Dubois to Denver as Robin is getting very close with the baby. 

Thur, 9 Aug`12:  No progress with the grandbaby today.

Fri, 10 Aug`12:  Still no progress.

Sun, 12 Aug`12: Taking a walk through downtown Denver.

Fri, 17 Aug`12:  Grandbaby has arrived!  8:06 pm Denver time, 16 Aug.

Sat, 18 Aug`12:  Siena was a little jaundiced and will need to stay under the lights for a couple of days.  Also had low blood sugar.  However as of today blood sugar is fine and if it stays good today will be ready to go home tonight or Sunday morning!!

Sun, 19 Aug`12:  Siena's blood sugar leveled out so she was taken off of the IV however after removal of the IV the blood sugar dropped some. Her feeding has been adjusted a bit and the blood sugar has started to rise. No word when she will go home. Thinking Sunday afternoon or maybe Monday morning. Somebody feed that baby!

Mon, 20 Aug`12:  Siena's blood test are all fine this morning and she is comming home today.

Grandmamma and the grandbaby.

                Aunt Ginger and Siena

Dubois, WY – Longhorn RV

We left Robin and Jeff in Denver on Saturday and traveled to Rawlings, WY for a one night layover.  Made the trip from Rawlings to Dubois on Sunday.  Planning to be here for two months excluding a trip to Denver around the first week in August for the birth of our first grandchild.

Parked on the Wind River at Longhorn.

Museum days in downtown Dubois.  Cowboy stew, fry bread and lemonade.

The falls at Falls Campground

Birthday party for Jim.  From left to right around the table.  Randy, Bill, Doris, Lois, Sue and Jim.

Sunset after rain storm

Monday, 30 July:  New resident at the Longhorn.  Normally in years past this tree provides a fishing perch for an Osprey.  However this year you are more likely to see a Bald Eagle occupying the tree.   Appears the Eagle is the dominant fisher.

While returning from a slightly successful fishing trip to Fish Lake Doris spotted the Grizzly below on Warm Springs Road about one mile past the turn off to Trout Lake.  The bear actually gave us a few very good poses but by the time we found the cameras he had become bored and continued digging and eating.

Denver, CO – Chatfield State Rec Area

Arrived in Denver on Friday afternoon and will be here through Friday  13, July to visit daughter, Robin, and hubby, Jeff. 

Chatfield is a very nice park and not too far from Robin’s apartment.

Hot Air Balloon at Chatfield.

Rest stop along the route from Denver to Rawlings, WY.

The Long Bumpy Ride: Dublin, OH – Custer, SD

We have traveled 1327 miles for Dublin, OH to Custer, SD.  We made three stops at Knoxville, IL, Welcome, MN and Presho, SD.  Along the way we took in a couple of traditional tourist traps which we had previously ignored, The Corn Palace in Mitchel, SD and Wall Drugs in Wall, SD.

 The Corn Palace

Wall Drugs

Custer’s Gulch RV

Spent only 4 nights here, as the park was already booked up over the week of the 4^th.  We spotted the below group of big horn sheep, ewes, as we passed through Custer State Park on our way in. 

 The following are a few shots of the sights in the park.

At one time these burros were used to carry visitors to Harney Peak from Sylvan Lake.  These rides are no longer available and the burros are now allowed to have free run of the park.

Fort Welikit RV
After our 4 day stay at C’s gulch we relocated to Fort Welikit RV about 4 miles closer to town for 3 nights.  We have done more traveling than we would like since we left Houston and are now enjoying our week of staying put.

Took in the July 4^th parade along main street in Custer.  Parade started with a B1 Bomber fly-over followed by fire trucks, tractors, etc.  Nice but it just doesn’t measure up to the Dubois parade.

Dublin, OH – Alum Creek State Park

Finished our maintenance at Spartan Service Center on Tuesday.  Other than planned maintenance the only item found during the Spartan chassis inspection was a torn ball joint rubber boot.  Of course to replace the boot we needed a new ball joint.  Also had the alignment adjusted (went to Alaska last year).

 We’ve gone 1750 miles since leaving Houston and needed an RV wash which we took care of this morning.  Had to do a little volunteer forestry work to keep the DataStorm happy but we are online.

Plan to be here through the weekend for a visit with Kathy and Tony Ricci.  Will be heading west on Monday towards Denver with a few days stopover in Custer, SD.

Below are Kathy and Tony Ricci friends and former neighbors from our Louisiana days.

We had a great time visiting several sites in the Dublin area.  Spent one day at the Dawes Arboretum (see above).  We stopped by the airport in Urbana for lunch.  Always an interesting experience watching small planes fly in and out as we had our lunch. 

There is a small museum at the airport. Currently a WWII B17 bomber is in the process of being restored by volunteers. As an added bonus one to the 9 currently operational B17s was on site for tours and flights. We took the tour which was interesting. No wasted space in these machines. Just enough room for the crew, machine guns and bombs.

Below is the B17 available for touring.

Below is the current condition of the B17 being restored.