From Terlingua through Big Bend Ranch State Park to Marfa TX

Top picture: Texas Blue Bonnet
Middle Picture: Scenery like this all day.
Bottom Picture: Fort Leaton - one of the "smaller" wagons used to transport goods on the Overland Trail. Pancho Villa hung out there.

Another good day in the desert.
Comments from Eldon: Another spectacular drive - I love wandering.
Comments from Harry: All the curves make the ride exciting in my cubby hole by the bed.

Big Bend National Park

South Padre Island

2015

Update on 2014 - We spent the winter in FL, mainly in Sarasota, but took the camper to the keys and Key West. In August and  September, we took a circle tour of Lake Superior for 3 weeks. A beautiful, scenic trip. That is our traveling year in a nutshell.

On January 3, 2015 we left St. Ignace. Three hours from home we had an accident. A young girl, I should say a young, UNINSURED, girl was driving too fast on the snowy road and hit us. Eldon was able to keep the truck in our lane but we both expected more vehicles to hit us. The scooter is totaled. The truck has a dent in the passenger door and a small dent in the hood where the scooter hit it. I will skip all the insurance details. We spent 3 nights with Brenda and Tom in Bryan, OH. We then proceeded south in totally freezing weather. We are now in Texas but it is still cold and rainy. We are near Galveston - I took my first beach walk today - in fleece, down vest and mittens.

Home

Home, sweet home. We drove almost 500 miles on Sunday, Oct. 13. Total trip mileage - 8,106 miles. All in all, another great trip. We are so......lucky.
Comments from Eldon: I love my high ceilings and flushing toilets. Oh, and I was getting tired of dumping the tanks. All in all, the trip was marvelous.
Comments from Harry: I can actually run now - I love my house. All in all, it was a good trip. As long as I'm with Cindy and Eldon, I'm a happy camper.

Shut out of Rocky Mountain National Park compliments of the federal government

Way past time for a quick update. So, not believing the government would actually shut down the national parks, we headed for Rocky Mountain National Park. This would have been our 17th national park/monument of this trip; but unbelievably we were shut out. We spent the night in Steamboat Springs, a nice ski town for sure. Tuesday, the 2nd, we drove north around Rocky Mountain Park, with the plan of going to the town Estes Park. It was a beautiful drive, probably similar to the park, but we'll never know (well, not this trip anyway.) When we get all the way around, we discover two of the roads into Estes are still closed due to the massive flooding. We spent the night in Longmont, CO. There is another road to Estes, but the weather was supposed to be super cold and snowy and the park was still closed. So, we threw in the towel for Rocky Mountain. We moved up our visit with nephew, Chris, and family from the 5th to the 3rd. After a nice visit with them, we have since been slowly heading east. A pleasant trip, but not too eventful. Spent 2 nights in Fort Morgan, CO. It was so windy and some snow, we decided not to battle the wind the 2nd day and stayed put. Overnighted after that in McCook, NE, Lincoln, NE, Ottumwa, Iowa, Peoria, IL and Monticello, IN.And here we are in Canton, OH for Nick and Jill's wedding on the 12th.