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With the time change the dogs have had a hard time letting us sleep in past 7:30 mountain time. After having spent the first 3 days in Pueblo running all day, dogs waking us up early and the altitude by Thursday we were a bit run down. We spent Thursday and Friday running a fewContinue reading “Altitude Can Be a Hard Thing”

Many campers have that one gadget they can’t do without (or that they would rather not camp without). One of our favorite gadgets is the Ninja Foodi. While camping in Utah earlier this year the temperatures were over 100 degrees. When it’s extremely hot you definitely don’t want to turn on the oven in temperaturesContinue reading “Camping Gadgets”

While we’re in Colorado Michael’s parents are in the same campground as us. They planned a trip up in to the mountains for a day trip on Wednesday. His mom and pop rented an SUV so we could all comfortably ride up to the mountains and enjoy the scenery. We drove about an hour andContinue reading “Cripple Creek”

The big part of our trip to Colorado has been looking at land and seeing if we like this area as a future place to live. We had found some properties on Zillow before leaving Texas that we wanted to see and contacted a realtor. While the realtor didn’t take us to the properties (noneContinue reading “A Bit Overwhelmed”

Monday we got up early with the dogs – time changes and a good nights sleep after a 300 mile drive fighting crosswinds makes people pretty tired. This KOA in Pueblo has a lovely option of a few “private patios”. It has been a huge blessing being able to take the dogs outside and letContinue reading “Errands and Looking at Land”

In our world today we are highly dependent on technology in so many things we do. When we were planning a trip years ago we would have used an atlas or different maps of the states and roads. Nowadays, we have a gps on our phone or a separate unit for gps guidance. In today’sContinue reading “Technology and Camping”

Today’s trip was about 325 miles and not the route we planned. When planning a trip we map as we go on Google Maps to get an idea visually of the route. This also helps us gauge miles between destinations, refueling stops, and can let us know when we have to make additional stops ifContinue reading “Planning ahead”

When planning our trip we had planned a route that would not take us through the Raton pass as it is steeper over the mountains that way. We set the route in Michael’s phone and about an hour and a half in to the trip realized that the GPS had changed our route sending usContinue reading “GPS Knew Better”

When we’ve talked about going to Amarillo in the months we’ve been together Michael has often mentioned a restaurant called The Big Texan. They have a 72oz challenge that if you eat in an hour you get the meal free if not you owe them $72. It comes with 4.5 lbs of steak, a bakedContinue reading “Food and Relaxation”

Friday morning Oct 9 we got up very early (for us anyway) at 5:30 am so that we could be on the road around 7 am. We made some breakfast sandwiches ahead of time that we froze and can reheat the days we are driving. We walked the dogs, filled the last minute things inContinue reading “Amarillo By 5pm”