(Sorry for the delay in posting updates, Folks; we’ve been without much internet for the past week. Catching up now.)
We were thankful on Saturday (July 28) when our big slide came in as usual and we were able to be on the road by 9:30. We rolled through Raton, over Raton Pass, and into Pueblo by noon. We made a lunchtime stop at Precision Hydraulics to pick up a spare hydraulic line that they had made for us. Then we pulled into Canon City to overnight before continuing north. Our home-for-a-day was Prospectors RV Park. It’s an OK overnight stop, and the best part about it is its proximity to Royal Gorge Park.
The park is run by the City of Canon City, and is a beautiful facility. A forest fire in 2013 burned much of the vegetation and most of the buildings on the site. The new facility is lovely. In addition to being able to walk the pedestrian bridge across the canyon,
you can take a gondola ride over they abyss (we were not comforted by the sign inside),
or do the equivalent of a zipline (not me)!
Dogs are welcome everywhere (except the zipline), so we took the Bagley Pack with us on the gondola. A 20-minute line was made less tedious by the numerous kids that took turns petting the dogs.
The actual gondola ride was not so popular with Kota and Rue, but Colt took everything in stride. John and Kota took the turn-around gondola ride, while Colt, Rue and I walked across the bridge.
I was amused at this sign since the river is some 1100 feet below.
It’s an impressive facility, and a fun way to spend a few hours. We recommend a visit if you’re in the area.
On Sunday morning we moved out early and took the back roads north. Not far along the road we stopped at a farm stand and picked up a couple of Palisades peaches. They were as good as we remembered them.
Our Co-pilot Truck software proved disappointing. Both the computer version and the iPad-based software had trouble finding the satellites needed to track our progress. Google Maps was our fall-back, and thank goodness it worked well. We had to cross Hoosier Pass as well as one other pass. The switchbacks kept John on his toes as he guided Falcon up and down the mountain roads.
We did see some interesting country along the way, though. As we came through Fairplay, we found ourselves in the middle of Burro Fest. In addition to the requisite booths and balloons, there was a race in which the participants had to run with a burro. The burros (and a mule or two, I think) seemed to be having as much fun as the runners.
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