Friday, 8/5/11
[non-journal addition: The time to which I've milked this trip is shameful. This is the end. Final. But don't get excited. There is no Thelma & Louise ending.]
It rained again during the night. Probably just to keep up our streak of wet muddiness going.
While I tried to finish off the [...]
Wednesday 8/3/11
OH WHAT A NIGHT!
(who can read that without thinking …Late December back in 63? Not me.)
Peace! Quiet! Solitude! This. THIS is what camping is supposed to be! A few coyotes in the night, a couple of distant cow moos and that’s it. No dogs. No generators. No babies!
Dave planned [...]
It is still 7/29/11 and we are still barely out of the driveway.
As I mentioned, the plan was to leave at 5 am and caravan with the Koo’s. But since we left almost an hour late, and since they live almost an hour south of us, they had a healthy head start on us. [...]
Friday, 7/29/11
We begin. On the road at 5:50. Were shooting for 5 am but who were we kidding? The cooler needed to be packed, which always takes more time than you think, regardless of the fact that I had everything ready to go inside bags inside the fridge and freezers. I don’t know [...]
After leaving Durango around 6pm, we backtracked north once again. The rain was hard and unrelenting the whole way. Knowing we wouldn’t get to Ouray and Ampitheather Campground before deep dark, we started calling places to stay recommended in our book, The Colorado Guide [highly recommended]. We couldn’t get through to the place we really [...]
Menke 2009 Road Trip Day Two: Great Sand Dunes to Pagosa Springs, Colorado [...]
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