October 15 Heading West in Colorado

View from our RV

Another view in our  campground

Since we didn’t have to get up early to leave and we seemed to have an abundance of bread for some reason, I made fried bread for breakfast and fresh strawberries. It was a nice change. Bill got directions from the campground owner of how to get to Route 10. So once we got going we soon learned that the directions do no good if the country roads have no signs on them. We asked a road crew if we were at Road 26 and he said no it was 25 but if we were going to Rt 10 to go ahead on it and it would be a mile up the road. Well each intersection did not have a road sign so we ended up making a loop back to La Junta, where we saw signs leading to Rt 10. We agreed the lady should have told us to go where the sign was instead of sending us on country back roads. But, we found our way along the flat, straight, boring single lane road. Once again it was good to have a book on tape to pass the time.

Bill spotted 2 deer along the road and then later a big truck in front of us veered to the left and we could see he was avoiding 2 antelope in the road but then they couldn’t keep going because there was a fence so I slowed almost to a stop for fear they would bolt back across in front of us. That’s all we needed, but the poor things pushed themselves through the barb wire fence. They realized they couldn’t get by us so they had no choice but to go through the fence. They looked like they were OK.

We stopped at a McDonald’s for lunch in Los Alamos because there weren’t any places we could park and open the sides. We fueled up just down the road and took Xena out and got back on the road. Once we started approaching the mountains, the scenery took a drastic turn and showed great improvement. The aspen trees are all beautifully yellow and the shrubbery on the mountains in copper, yellows and golds. We crossed one pass at over 7,000 feet. No problem.

Along the way we drove through Monte Vista and realized we were passing a Best Western Movie Manor motel that we had stayed it several years ago. It has drive in movie screens that you can watch the movie through your huge room window. You have speakers in the room that you can turn on or just close the curtains if you aren’t interested in the movie.

Once we arrived in the town of South Fork, which is in a gorgeous valley, there were numerous campgrounds and cabins, all claiming to provide great views. They probably all do. Ours is Grandview Cabins and RV Resort. The camp manager is really nice and helped us get parked in a tight spot due to our slides. He’s already closed off one side of the camp sites and some of the cabins as they close up for the year the end of the month. The park is beautiful with the aspen trees all around. We also met a nice fellow camper from Texas who talked with Bill over an hour after we got set up. He told us all about driving our RV to Alaska and cautioned us on a number of things at the same time.

For dinner we had the venison stew I made last night and homemade cornbread. It sure hit the spot. Then we took Xena for a walk and on the small crest to the back of the campground Bill saw some deer. I crept up closer and there were 3 adults and 2 baby mule deer. It was getting dark and I couldn’t get close enough to get a clear shot. Darn! There was a house back there so they must feel really comfortable to roam around.

The rest of the evening was TV and blogging.