Autumn begins. Our stint as Campground Hosts at Boysen State Park in the Wind River Canyon in Wyoming ended the Tuesday after Labor Day. We spent just a few six weeks plus a few days in that beautiful Canyon. Some of the camp guests were from Austria, Germany, France, Poland, Vancouver Canada and several states in the USA. Almost all were very enjoyable.
Also made some very good friends that we'll keep contact with. The Park Staff at Boysen were a joy to work with also. It always helps the job (even as volunteers) go more smoothly. Only drawback was no cell phone service, no Internet services and no TV where we were. To use our cell phones we had to drive about 15 miles south towards Shoshoni, WY and to use the Internet we had to drive to Park Headquarters about 3 miles. We have many great photos of Mountain Rams that came into the campground daily, big horn sheep that usually appeared daily near the dam site, a pair marmots near our campsite and a huge owl that liked to perch in a big old cottonwood tree right outside our RV and hoot a lot through the night.
Since this is the maiden posting I'll capsulize this past summer. In May we traveled to Boone, IA so we could attend Dee's 50th high school reunion. We also celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary the Saturday evening of the Reunion. Larry's sister Shirley was kind enough to let is park at her residence just east of Ogden, IA during our stay to the end of June. We then traveled north through Webster City, IA visiting long-time friends Gay & Fern Nelson and then on to St. Ansgar, IA to Dee's cousin's Virl Deal. We stayed 1 night longer that we had anticipated due to severe thunder storm warnings with possible hail/tornadoes. Really enjoyed seeing one of my favorite cousins again. Then we went further north to Dresser, WS to stay with Dee's cousin Walt and his wife Doris. They live on Lake Poplar around the St. Croix area. First activity was the big 4th of July celebration that Walt & Doris host every year with fireworks display at night. We watched the show from the middle of the lake on Walt's pontoon boat. Absolutely gorgeous! Then we traveled over to Wausau, WS to get a glimpse at the new 2009 Allegro diesel MH that Walt & Doris purchased. You talk about RVing in style, this is it!!! Maiden voyage was a trip to Lake Superior at Duluth, MN. We both camped at a marina right near the lake. Wonderful weekend. We really hated to leave the good company and Wisconsin but we had committed to the camp host situation so we were on our way to Wyoming through North Dakota.
After Wyoming we traveled to Custer, SD in the Black Hills (taking the route from Newcastle, WY through Hell's Canyon, SD) - what a trip around the mountains and hairpin turns! We went to Mt. Rushmore via Iron Mountain Road through Custer State Park. Also took a drive to Deadwood, Stuergis, & Lead spending the day seeing the sights. From Custer we drove Route 83 all the way into Childress, TX.
We will be in Childress until around the 1st of October and then we are heading further south to find us a winter destination until warmer weather comes. Both of us have medical appointments for our quarterly lab work, dental appointments and Larry has his annual eye examination. Hopefully all checkups will be fine. It's really good to see all of our friends in Childress and get to play bridge with the ladies.
October marks our first year of full-time RVing. Time has really flown by it seems. Don't know what the next year will bring but we are looking forward to it.
