October 16-17 , 2025 Lake Pueblo State Park, Colorado

 77 and sunny.

There were a ton of butterflies on this one rabbit bush.  The marina store is out of minnows and leeches, and leeches are only $8, Darn we missed the Chili and Frijoles festival. Palm trees on the back of a house boat in the marina. John on his way out the dock to the marina. 

There was 15 mph wind and I did not want to boat into it and over the waves. The water is clear. 

Looking toward the boat ramp. Sun almost down in the campground. 

Almost down. Some color in the sunset over the lake. 

We went to the Steelworks Center of the west. The museum is in the old medical clinic. John in steel works park outside the museum. The old iron works are across I-25 from the rest of the buildings. This plant was built in 1883 to make rails for the railroads that were built in the west. It is the biggest steel plant west of the Mississippi. The newer in use plant is now south of this site. 

John in the 180 ton ladle from the old steel plant. The historic office complex. Really interesting museum.

We walked along the riverwalk in downtown Pueblo. a nice mile section of the Arkansas river with walkways, are and shops along the river. 

At one end of the river walk is Lake Elizabeth. Sculpture on the river walk. The walk was closed at this point due to construction. 

Zebulon Pike exhibit. He camped in this area when he was exploring the Arkansas river. 

We stopped at the Brues Alehouse brewery along the river walk, tasted their beer did not like it and moved to the Shamrock Brewing Company. John with his IPA at the Shamrock.  A sign in the Shamrock brewery 'No shoes no kilt, no service', The had chocolate porter ice cream floats. Yum. Art on the river walk. 

We got the last spot big enough for us in the campground for over the weekend. It is a double campsite. No one was there for the last two night. Today this monstrous 5th wheel pulled in behind up in the other spot. Their truck is right up to our picnic shelter. Sunset over the campground. 

Dinner outside again tonight. Sunset with our neighbors campfire and an outdoor spot light from the next camp site. 

October 14-15, 2025 Horse Tooth Reservoir to Lake Pueblo State Park, Pueblo, Colorado

 69, mostly sunny. 

The campground is in Stout, population 47 1/2. We drove to Masonville to mail our ballots, not much bigger. In Masonville. 

Couple views on the way back. Horsetooth Reservoir. It is a little low this time of year. Look how far out of the water the dock at the marina is. 

Sunset on the lake.

Deer in the campsite. Sunset over our campsite. 

Jason and Kim, friends from Fort Collins came to visit. They are camp hosts at this campsite on weekends. Nice to see them. An inflatable hot tub at Jason and Kim's rig. Plus wild turkeys. 

Denver Skyline. The air force academy airport and Pike's Peak in Colorado Springs. 

The bus at our new campsite at Lake Pueblo State Park. John fixed the broken connection in the wiring harness between the bus and the truck. 

Views from our campsite at dusk. 

There was a little bit of sunset before the sun went behind a cloud bank on the horizon. 

October 10 - 13, 2025 Fort Collins to Horse Tooth Reservoir, Colorado

 60's, partly  cloudy with some light rain.

Rainy bike path with fall colors. We strolled through the FOCO Fall fest. They had a full line up of music, but we just strolled. 

Another master piece made from scraps. It is a little busy, but looks better I think in the cactus stand. A few more wire wraps. 

Finally, after our last false start we are packing the bus to leave. The next day was so pretty and sunny I decided to ride on the dirt trails by the river. 

Small creek going into the river with fall colors. I had a minor crash on my bike, ripped part of my toenail and a bunch of skin off my little toe. Got blood all over. I stopped at a restroom and cleaned it up and covered it. Very painful. It does not help that in the night I opened the door to the bedroom and hit the toe and tore more of the nail off!!

We are on the road. Bye bye Fort Collins. We are at Horse tooth Reservoir. 

The horse's tooth. Our campsite at Horse Tooth Reservoir right on the water. We are only about 15 miles from home. We are staying here 2 nights, in case we forgot anything, we can drive back and get it. We had an adventure getting to our site, first went to the wrong campground, then turned on the wrong road  going to the right campground. Could not make a U turn, so had to take the truck off the back (you can't back up with the tow vehicle on) and  back the the bus up. Got to the right campground- Inlet Bay. We had I-13. We thought I-3 was 13, and it had the host in it. Went back to the ranger station which was closed, but caught the ranger just leaving. We told him 15 looked empty, so he said came there. After dinner John discovered that we were in I-3, not 13. We are staying till tomorrow and calling the ranger. 

Our views from our campsite. 

The lake is very low. Sunset.

And more sunset.