Longmont,Loveland Colorado-meetings friends & Family

After 13 years traveling with our 5W it is the  first time we are coming back to the same State…Colorado.

We have been here 10 years ago and made some friends and with the ones that we stayed in touch we wanted to meet again and catch up.

We chose to camp for 3 days in Longmont CO fairgrounds and visit 2 friends and one  nephew.

In 2005 while hiking we meet Warren & Tami ,with them was an 11 year old girl,we walked the hike and talked with them enjoying their company and the the young girl’s behaviour.

At the end of the hike Warren gave me his business card and we stayed connected through e-mails and Skype,now 10 years later we meet a 21 year old lady and had a great time with Tami & Warren.

 

In 2005 we pooled into a C.G at the Grand Canyon ,next to us parked an A class and the owners were trying to get their gas grill going with not to much of a success, so I pulled my grill out and handed it to them before leaving the C.G for a hike.

Coming back in the evening we were invited by David & Cheryl for some drinks and stayed in touch till we met again a week ago…we all got older,wiser and slower but we stayed friends.

My nephew is doing his PHD in Bolder University and it sure was a great opportunity to visit his family that expended from 2 to 3…and now they have a 3 months old baby named Ari.

So here we had 3 days of socializing,catching up and having fun.

Today we moved to Riverview RV park near Loveland and it will be our home till 5th of July,woow it was hard to get a site in such a short notice ,but we did it.

From here we will do side trips to Estes Park and to Rocky Mountain N.P to do some hiking .

2005 4TH RV trip-North New Mexico-Colorado

This year we started from Albuquerque after visiting the balloon festival that took 3 days, it is a event that is worthwhile to see.
Air balloons from all sizes and shapes colored in magnificent colors were taken off from the field at the same time, that was a sight to see-wooow, at night the lights were lighed reflecting the colors from the balloons and it was just beautiful.
As we travel with a general plan and have no time schedule it is easy to take the road to non planed places like the one we took after hearing about it in a cowboy store, we headed towards THE hunters gathering in North New Mexico.
These is one of the pleasant surprises that can lighten your day,people lived in a camp like the old days wearing leather and shooting black powder-it sure was an adventure.
Morris and Lavern from Texas were camping next to us and since then we are in touch through the net, Morris is a great fisherman and I learned a thing or two from him.
Colorado with its amazing scenic area welcomed us and we took it with two hands,lakes,sand dunes,National parks and wild life amazing.
Getting closer to Edmonton we traded our good old 5W for a 2006 new Cruiser from Crossroads.
The dealer took good care of us and agreed to store the rig in his place for the winter- Thanks Doug.