The Sands of Time

Sunday morning the six of us took off for Great Sand Dunes Natl. Park. It was a beautiful morning with clear skies and a bright sun - it promised to warm up from the night's low of 37 degrees.

The dunes are really awesome - nothing that you would expect to see nestled up to 14,000 foot mountains in the middle of Colorado, that's for sure. The highest dune is 750 feet high. It really amazed me how many people where climbing these dunes - some even made it to the top. I was told that for every step forward you slide back about a half step - whew - makes my legs hurt thinking about it. We did walk out on the "floor" area of the dunes and I found a interesting green rock. I'm really curious as to what kind of stone it is. I was told that there are rocks called Colorado emeralds - maybe this is one of them. I found it in the creek bed that runs around the dunes (it was dry at this time of year). For more info on the dunes do a google search - some really interesting stuff!

We then drove to South Fork, CO. and had lunch at the Hungry Logger - not bad but still not real good. I'm wondering if there are any good restaurants in Colorado. We sure haven't found many.

On our return back to the campground, we stopped at Wally World in Alamosa and also stopped to get some KFC for dinner.

This was a all day trip and we returned home hungry, tired and ready to rest.

Monday we decided was a down day. Works for me! Dean rinsed the motorhome off, I drove to town to pick up our mail and then spent the rest of the day having fun. We cooked out and Jan made dutch oven peach cobbler which was very good.

Today (Tuesday) is another down day. We are grilling chicken this afternoon. This is the last day for this campground, so we will also start getting ready to move tomorrow.

We've had a change of plans. We could not get in a campground near Albuquerque for the next three weeks so we have decided to go west to Farmington and spend about three weeks there. In a way, I'm glad as now we can visit the four corners, Mesa Verde and Durango. This is a area I wanted to get to but had figured another time.

It will probably be several days before another post, but don't forget to check back sometime - see ya!