2 Wheels-4 Wheels-6 Wheels

I can honestly say I have had the most fun I have ever had in my entire  life this last week.

Being courageous and wild at heart has jumped right into my sense of being AND BIT ME GOOD!

St. Francis ER

As most of you know, I was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake on my second adventure since getting my 26 foot LIGHT HOUSE. (RV)  Hiking in the woods is not a new thing for me, but I would hardly say I was hiking the night the RASCAL attacked me.

2 Wheels took me right into the hospital and thankfully OUT after a stay in the hospital.

4 Wheels, ahhhhhhh my goodness what an adventure it is to start at the bottom of a mountain range and    end up looking down and around at the most beautiful sights you have ever seen.  Getting there of course gave new meaning to TAKE CHANCES AND BELIEVE IN YOUR 4 wheeler's POWER.

Today we rode (Jan's brothers and sister-in-law) for at least 4 1/2 hours and crossed from Ouray to Silverton through one dirt trail to another not so dirty but muddy mountainous trail.  3 times I thought to myself,  "Embrace this and make a memory to call upon in my elder days, even though you are white knuckled and in danger 75% of the time either going up, or coming down."   THE VIEW WAS UNBELIEVABLE and the tour guides were exceptional.  Debbie dressed me in North Face gear and black leather gloves thank goodness.  Riding in the  rain in the Rockies calls for CUTE AND SMART GEAR.
The songs in my head were of course from John Denver's Greatest Hits, and if I hum one more chores of Stairway to Heaven I think I will go back up to the mountain peak and jump off.

Rocky Mountain too High

Two nice young gentlemen were on mountain bikes bringing the ashes of one of their fathers to the place he called "His favorite Place."

Yesterday's trac to the highest mountain peak had me doing a Julie Andrews in jeans and tennis shoes, but I KNOW I HAD THE ARM ACTION PERFECT.

Stairway to Heaven

Life with a view

Now to the 6 Wheels.  The Little Lighthouse is just perfect.  It looks so dandy sitting between RVs that any country star could be hold up in traveling from one concert to another.

This morning we met our new neighbors as we were leaving to go into town.  I asked the gentleman if he was from Texas and he said yes.  OK, license plate gave it away, but it was a sure ice-breaker.  He asked me where I was from and I told him I was from Oklahoma.  He said, "My wife is from Oklahoma."  She was brought up in Okmulgee and spent much of her life also in Morris, Oklahoma.
Tomorrow I am sure we will find time to exchange memories of Okmulgee in the 50s.

Jan has been getting to do anything she wants on the 2 days we were off mountain surfing.  She found a great DOG PARK for Eli and Waylon in Ouray, and Debbie, Jan and I packed a great lunch and went into Ridgeway to picnic and discover what that small town has to offer on a warm summer day.

There were many times my travel partners let me travel a ways by myself.  I kept thinking about the people I LOVED THAT HAVE LEFT THIS WORLD.  I TOOK TIME TO APPRECIATE THE MOMENTS, FOR I ALL TO WELL KNOW THEY WILL ALL TO SOON BECOME JUST A
MEMORY.

Some of you are asking how to write a comment.  I thought I saw a place on the Opening Blog page, but just keep trying.


More later,
Julie/John/Led Zeplin are deep in my HEART