June 22, 2010 Buena Vista, Colorado

We drove to Buena Vista to visit Cathy Frasier and her new beau.  She moved down to Belize and met Rob and moved onto his boat with him and they run a charter service. We went to Cottonwood hot springs. We did not take the bus, decided gas would cost too much. So we drove, slept on the floor at Cathy’s

Cotton wood hot springs

John at Cottonwood hot springs checking out the statue, Rob riding     We went to visit a friend of Cathy’s who had horses. Rob and Cathy rode this beauty. She threw both of them. Cathy ended up hurting her back.

 
                                                                                              Cathy, John and I hiked up to tree line to Ptarmigan Lake. It was pretty windy, but still pretty. Cathy and John hid in the bushes.

Sue and Cathy wind blown by the lake, we thought Rosie should have come with us, so I photo shopped her in.

Sky pilots and a view of Mt Yale

Ptarmigan Lake, Sue and Cathy by the lower lake, and sue smelling forget me not's. mmmmmm

rodent with a tuxedo on,  , Rob and Cathy- We went to dinner at another friends of Cathy’s.                                                     We dressed in beach wear.

Cathy and Suep, Sue and John

Sue and John, John refused to pose with the broom, Rob and Cathy-American gothic. Rosie did   come down another night for dinner, so here are Cathy, Rosie and Suep

June 12- 13 2010 Kelly Flats, Poudre Canyon, Colorado

Our camp spot was reserved for the weekends, so we moved up stream to a first come, first serve campsite. To make sure we got a site John drove his van up there, set up a tent and put a couple chairs there.  Karen and Bill came up to see the bus, so they drove up with us and we sat around, drank wine and visited. They gave us a ride back to the bus. We took the bus up early the next day. The host asked about it and John said he slept in the tent. He also asked if we had seen the guy next to us and we said yes-but it ended up he did the same thing we did! We set up tent in case we had visitors, but it rained really hard and no one came up.
We drove up the Red Feather lakes one day to try to find a friend of Johns who was visiting. We didn’t find him, but I had never been there before so it was fun.  We had lunch there and then  bought some chocolate chips and went back to the bus and had cookies and watched movies. The next day we hiked a trail up the valley called roaring creek.

Bus at Kelly Flats, totem pole at Red Feather lakes

blue mist penstamen, Wild flowers on the hike

John hiking, calypso orchids

Storm up the canyon, John over roaring creek

view up the canyon from above the valley,   Hummingbirds at our feeder at Kelly flats, right outside our window.

June 1-10 2010 Colorado

Yes, I got to move more things. Gerhart drove my mothers furniture to California, my sister Judy took them.

Gerhart leaving. John tying everything in.

Gerhart had reserved a smaller truck, but they were out, so he got this huge one.

While waiting for the eviction and the rerenting of Johns rental we drove the bus up Poudre Canyon and parked it at a forest service campground-Ansell Watreus. Some of our friends came up to visit. Above are pictures of the bus We had two cars so John could go back to town and take care of business.the river was really high. The mountains were beautiful.

 

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It was hot, so we cooked out side and did dishes outside. It was just like being on a river trip, except we were in the bus. Here is a pile of shoes we found in the eddies when the river was really high.

High river.

Chris Webster came up from Boulder to visit with us. Here he is with a humming bird at the feeder The .bus with raging river behind it

columbines and evening light

There was a trail head right across the highway from the campground. I hiked up. Here is a waterfall, wild violets

Golden  Banner and a little fall

John visiting with John Gross when he was kayaking down the river. It was great, everyone stopped to visit and see the bus. Loco weed

Chris brought up all his mixology supplies and mixed us some very tasty drinks. My favorite-poison ivy

shooting stars,  the beach behind the bus on the river. I took sun showers under the the tree-we were dry camping and had to go all the way back into Fort Collins to dump the tanks. When it was hot put my lawn chair in the water there.

Chris came up to boat the river with John, it was at 6 feet, which is a really high level. They got up early so Chris could boat, then go back to work that day. They boated upper Mishawaka.  John had the green boat that does not handle as well as his other boats and scared himself to death. Chris loved it.