Blue Spruce Motel Lamar

... similar to many others that we have seen. The national park rangers in period costumes and acting as interpreters gave a fantastic tour. <br><br>After the tour we had a quick lunch in the coach and continued on to Lamar, Colorado. We arrived here in time to check into the RV park, unhitch the car, hook up, slide out and level, and hop into the car for the 50 mile drive to Sand Creek ...

We continue in the bubble of cool weather and the threat of severe weather. the ride was only 120 miles long the longest of the trip so far. The weather cooperated except for the wind, We hoped for a tail wind and got very little. Most of the day it was quatering into us. I rode most of the frist 60 miles ...

... prone to exaggeration (hard to believe, I know), I do mean hundreds, maybe a thousand. They swarmed (do moths swarm?) as I drove off. I shoe'd a few stragglers away inside the van over the first few miles, and one continued to buzz me during the entire 370 mile drive to Black Canyon. I began to think of this one loner as a new pet. I named him "Spike".

It is almost 500 miles across Kansas from east to west. Not much to see. The highlight was Dodge City...home of "Gunsmoke"...the second longest running network TV series. Can you name the longest running? The history of the town is rich and the museum does a nice job of relating how the Great Plains Buffalo was massacred to near extinction in an ...

Wednesday 28th May We got up and left about 8 am and headed for a small National Park called Bents Old Fort. This turned out to be one of the most interesting places we have visited yet. It is located on the famous Santa Fe Trail near Las Animas in Eastern Colorado. It was built along the trail in the mid 1800's by Mr Bent , close to the Mexican border near the river as a refuge and trading post for people using ...

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... the floor of the town gymnasium, which doubled up as a hostel, proved to be great fun. Just as we starting cooking outside the heavens opened and the lightening started. We gave up, and went to get a burger. At 'Wendy's' we went through the now familiar process of everyone in the restaurant asking us where we were from. Guesses ranged from California to Switzerland! With 220 ...

... the nearest water source. As Galvin returned with bottles full of brown water, in rolled the car and lunch was consumed. The final 35 miles were supposed to be a doddle on the flats. That was the case, at least until the stinging dust clouds and wind found us; we discovered why these plains are also known as the Dust Bowl! Having battled through these obstacles we arrived ...

... got a puncture. We saw a shaded picnic spot up ahead and got out of the sun to repair it. We got to Dumas having done 70 horrid miles. Since then it's been good again. We've been heading north to get out of the heat and decided to continue on up through Colorado. Hope you're all doing grand at home. P.S Dad, the bananas taste like bananas here! Talk soon. xx

I just woke up in Lamar, CO. I realized sleeping on the train is easy when you're not sleeping in a furnace. Celeste figured that out too as she's still sound asleep. We had dinner last night with a grandmother and her grandson who were going back to her home in L.A. She spoke very halting english, but we managed to get our points across just fine. Her grandson and I discussed the finer points of our techniques on looking out the train window when it was dark out ...