Awake: 7:08am Temp 61 Mostly cloudy Overnight @ Denver, CO.
1st day of fall & a cold front is passing through Denver this
morning….right on schedule.
I return the Denver phone books we borrowed from Carol, the campground
manager. Those books with their great maps sure made getting around the
area a lot easier.
We leave the Flying Saucer RV Park in Denver @ 9:42am. Local traffic not
so bad & in no time, we are on I-25 southbound. Smooth roads until close
to Colorado Springs, then I-25 begins showing a lot of wear & tear since
we traveled this way in 2003.
En route to our destination today, our friend Sam calls our cell phone &
invites us to have dinner @ their place tonight & asks us to call when we
get into town. We accept the invitation & will call on arrival.
We exit I-25 @ Walsenburg…..passing through town, we are halted by a slow
moving train for 8 min…..arriving @ Sammie’s RV Park in La Veta, CO @
1:28pm.
Today’s travel: 3+20 time 172 miles 22.5 gal used 7.64 mpg 54.5
avg speed
I call Sam from the campground office (no cell phone coverage in La Veta
for us). She will meet us @ Charlie’s Groceries @ 2:45pm. K & I walk into
town (5 min) & greet Sam. She is an almost 2 year survivor of breast
cancer and looking and feeling good. She takes us on a casual walking tour
around town: the art studio & gallery to see some quilts like no others &
the post office for her mail check. Then onto Main St. where we visit
Valley Winds clothing for women; Charlie’s for groceries; the library
where Sam works, etc. Everywhere we go, Sam is happily greeted by name;
the benefit of living and being active in a small town.Then she auto tours
us around town….showing us homes that they considered buying after they
sold their mountain home & 35 acres. We stop to see Sam’s mother-in-law’s
newly purchased home, which is being cleaned, painted & readied for
occupancy. Sam’s husband Glen, is also helping his mother, Betty, fix up
the house. Betty moved from Mesa, AZ after the death of her husband in
April.
After seeing Betty’s home, we visit the 11 yr old home of Sam & Glen that
they purchased in March of this yr. Already Glen has converted the single
car garage into a nice workshop & added a 2 car garage connected to the
house & installed a chain link fence around both of their lots to contain
their dogs. Sam gives us a house tour, shows us the delightful
mountain/city view from their porch, & introduces us to Betty….then its
wine & talk catch up time. Sam makes a good lasagna & salad dinner, which
we all enjoy with more talk and wine. We thank them for their hospitality
& agree to keep in touch.
Today’s high travel temp=82 Lights out: 11:05pm
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