July 17 - Leaving St Louis - headed for Topeka Kansas

With Lenny and Reuben’s schedules, I sometimes get to see a sunrise. Beautiful one this am before we headed out. 

Packed up and headed out across Missouri. Hoping to make it to Topeka Kansas and Lake Shawnee Campground. We stayed here last time we came through Kansas. 

We made it and this is our view.  Hoping to make it out on the kayaks tomorrow. 

July 16 - West of St. Louis

Driving across Indiana is not fun. Their roads are terrible. As soon as we crossed the line into Illinois, we couldn’t believe how much better to roads were. We crossed both the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. 

Made it to just west of St Louis and stayed at 370 Lakeside RV Park, a new campground with long pull through and fire pits. Alas, the temp was 95 degrees so we didn’t build a fire nor did we put the kayaks in the lake. 

BUT did get some St. Louis BBQ. It was delicious. AND another gorgeous sunset. So all was not lost. 

Night. 

July 15, 2018 - next tiny house camping adventure

Next adventure has started!  We are headed for Wind River, Wyoming with a stop in EstevPark to pick up Linda. 

Here’s our house as we left. Wonder what it will look like in a month!

First night we are stopping near Columbus OH at Alton RV Park. We’ve stayed there before. Weather is quite warm - 90 degrees. 

Our first sunset this trip. 

May 12 & 13 - close to home

Well our tiny house camping is coming to an end. Fun trip. We didn’t kill each other, saw the kids, explored and hiked beautiful places, bought motor home. 

Here is my last sunset and even a sunrise pic at a KOA near Terre Haute

We made it the whole way across the US without any traffic holdups because of construction until PA. Sat in traffic over an hour because of a lane closure. Is PA the only state that doesn’t know how to keep traffic moving?  

May 11 - headed across Kansas

Headed across Kansas on I-70. Not much to photograph. The sunflowers weren’t blooming yet. 

Camped in a beautiful campground, east of Topeka, Lake Shawnee. We camped right next to the lake. 

Another sunset on the lake

May 10 - heading east from Colorado

Left Ridgway State Park, CO, early morning. Travelled route 50 east. Was a very scenic drive. Drove over the Monarch Mountain Pass which is the Continental Divide. 

Next time we are through here, I’d like to take the cable car ride. 

Drove to the border of Colorado, Burlington. There was a very small roadside RV Park. Took a walk downtown Burlington, a high prairie small town. 

Had to use air conditioner for the first time, till it cooled down outside. 

May 9 - Ridgway State Park

After breakfast, we started out hiking the Twin Fawn trail to the MearsbTrail to the Enchanted Trail. Beautiful and peaceful 7.4 mile hike. Since our campground is on top of a Mesa, we first had to walk down the Telwin Fawn trail to catch the Mears trail. Reuben walked that whole way. Here’s the reservoir that is part of the campground. We walked around most of it. 

 The water is a deep shade of blue-green. Lenny kept trying to get down to it. The water is very low. They are in a drought situation because they haven’t had the snowfall they usually do. 

We could see the mountains which still had snow. Hopefully that will melt and run to the reservoir. 

After that long hike, we all needed to take a rest. Reuben was sleeping the minute he made it to the couch!  

Fire time. Tomorrow we leave. Not sure when we’ll be able to have a fire again so one last one for now it’s been good to be camped for 3 days.