Back on the road

Sorry for the lack of photos but I'll try to edit this and add some in the next few days. We caught a C-21 out of Maxwell and arrived back in Colorado Springs late Thursday night. Being with the grandkids was great but there are some drawbacks. Sandi caught whatever colds or viruses they were suffereing with almost immediately. I was able to resist any ailments until I got back to Colorado. I woke up Friday morning and suffered for several days with the achy-fevery-headache-runny nose-ect syndrome. Recovery finally came and Sandi and I were able to enjoy a few last moments with Spook and Brenda McFillin who were our hosts at their property in Black Forest Colorado. The McFillin's are Chapter-8 Escapees we were with on our trip into Mexico a few months ago. Their beautiful home is built into the ground on a high area east of Colorado Springs and the view from their living room is a spectacular panorama of the Front Range, including the magnificient Pike's Peak. Their bird feeder stays active and House finches, blue birds (mountain, eastern, and western), horn larks, and magpies can all be seen in the yard. We have a training date in Yellowstone and since we want to make a few stops along the way we needed to depart. We woke up to about 4 inches on beautiful snow on Monday our day of departure. The pines were all laden with a picturesque coating and the white valley between the House and up to the Mountains was just spectacular. By the time we prepared the RV for travel, the plows had cleared the road and the outside temperature began to climb from 32 degrees toward the forcast high of 60. We drove through snow in Spooks driveway but the roads were only wet in places and dry by the time we hit the interstate and headed north. We only got a far as Loveland and expect to spend several days here looking at the brass foundaries and perhaps the Rocky Mountain National Park. Watch the nest post for more on them.