This little blog for friends and family is a chronicle of our RV travels during the summer and fall of 2024. We are headed from Tampa (our winter, and sometimes summer, home) to Oregon. This trip is a continuation of many years of living full-time in our fifth wheel trailer and traveling this beautiful country. If you are interested in perusing the many wild (and not so
wild) natural places we explored from 2011 to 2018, visit http://www.travelswithtucker.com
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Colorado Rockies--Bluegrass and Beauty
In past years while full-timing in our rv, we spent two full summers in Colorado and it was hands down our favorite state. The entire western half of the state is a spectacular landscape with at least 15 separate mountain ranges interspersed with high mountain valleys and canyons. We have thoroughly enjoyed the state in the past. Here are some samples:
This trip we were just passing through Colorado on our way to Oregon, but we stopped for four days to attend a bluegrass music festival in the tiny town of Westcliffe. We had been to this festival twice before and loved the experience. This is the biggest event of the year for Westcliffe when their population swells with over 1000 visitors. All proceeds go to a local childrens' health foundation and they've raised nearly $850,000 over the past 21 years. They set up a huge tent on a bluff overlooking a wide green valley and the looming Sagre de Christo Mountains.
We saw some great acts and had a fun time. Here are a few samples:
Ron Thomason has led the Dry Branch Fire Squad for 48 years. He is recently recovered from a bout with cancer and here he shows off his "hambone" style.
Reluctantly leaving the relatively cool weather at 8,000 feet, we knew we were going west into some serious heat waves and wildfires. We crossed the continental divide after passing through the old mining district of Leadville, the highest incorporated city in North America (10,158 ft.) and gazed at the new national monument site of Camp Hale.
As you can probably see, we could talk about Colorado endlessly, but I have to share one of Colorado's best secrets. Thousands of people every day pass through the city of Grand Junction on Interstate 70 near the Utah border, and most of them don't know that they passed one of the most beautiful and most accessible canyonlands in the country--Colorado National Monument. Carved 3 million years ago by the Colorado River, it is literally a fifteen-minute drive from the interstate and takes only an hour to drive the full circle of the rim road (but I dare you not to stop at several of the scenic overlooks). Here are a few samples, but photos don't really do justice to the scale of the landscape:
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