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Trip Start
Mar 01, 2007
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Trip End
Feb 29, 2008
Red Rock, Denver, Colorado
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
We dropped off the car at Denver airport & had to travel 30 miles to go & collect the RV, Helen & Les were due to arrive, as we were trying to pull into the 3rd car park (rest were too low) we got the dreaded text saying 5 hour delay (lovely).....it is surprising how many times you can walk around a large airport in 5 hours !! & Colin couldn't even have a beer.....so at 11.30 pm we were driving 30 miles to the KOA & arrived at 1am, we all were knackered .
Fair to say that Kim & Helen didn't stop to take a breathe for several hours catching up..... but we couldn't wait, the journey had to start !! first stop was Rocky mountain NP, we were there on 4th July....(Kims dads birthday) Estes park nearby.......packed or what, but at least there were fireworks.
Driving over the 14000 ft summit pass in an RV with sheer drops was fantastic but excruitiating as Kim can't stand hieghts, so Colin of course wanted to find every ledge to stop on..... but it was fun to watch kids playing with snow at the top & Colin trying to Lassoo a wooden cow in a 1920's Dude ranch, his excuse was there was no call for this in England !!
Won't bore you with the specifics too much of the rest of the journey, other than to say we were pretty exhausted at the end........a couple of things worth commenting on, we got caught in a thunderstorm while at a rodeo near Yellowstone in Montana....we were the only people to walk to the show (told by the RV camp site staff where we were staying only 5 minutes walk) well, the 20 mins there was ok until the heavens opened up half way through the rodeo, the make shift canopy roof we paid $5 each extra to be under split and we all got soaked anyway, and then at the end, we had the 20 mins walk back in the pouring rain..
We were all confused about Mount Rushmore, the Americans we met treated this place more as a shrine, the evening show started with the pledge of allegiance, followed by "god bless america" and ended with the war veterans up on stage to applause with the National anthem at the end....seemed way over the top to an apethetic Englishman, but it seemed to us that there is a fine line between patriotism & nationalism.....not sure which this was.
Anyway, the 3 weeks flew by & Helen & Les went home, we all managed to hold back the tears (well almost) and we move on again to the next stage of our journey around the USA.....LOVING IT.
Comments
School Holidays
Hi Folks,
Glad to hear you are still having a great time, hope you did'nt wear Helen & Les out, I expect they have come home for a rest. Not as exciting this end, just back from a weekend trip to Lille but it still managed to rain. Its that time of year again for us and as you can imagine we are up to our eyes in it. We have about 25 schools to refit in six weeks so we are all over the place. Usually we would take a break in September but as Jill is fifty this year she is off to Malaysia for a month with the boys so no Tom to hold the fort.
Anyway, October is not that far away!!!!
Love Eileen & John
Memories of 'Cowboy Country'
It was lovely to look at your photographs of MountRushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Arches, Canyonlands etc etc. It brought back memories of a wonderful holiday spent doing the very same the summer before last.
I thought Yellowstone was amazing with the mudpots, geysers and hotsprings - like being on another planet!
We're off to Kenya this coming sunday spending 9 days on safari and then 5 days at the beach in Mombassa.
Take care,
looking forward to your next posting.
Love Karen.