In a couple weeks we are going to take the Colorado Train Trip that we planned for last year. The many forest fires in Colorado and the timing of Jennifer's transplant changed our trip last year to a fall trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
When we took our trip to the Western National Parks in 2008 we thought about taking the Cumbres and Toltec railroad trip into the mountains near Alamosa, Colorado. But early snowfalls chased us out of the high elevations and we skipped that part of the trip.
Now I have found a couple other train rides - An all day ride out of Durango on the Durango/Silverton, and some shorter rides in Colorado Springs and Georgetown. Rick loves trains and has been working on a large n-gauge train layout in our basement since we moved into this house. The rides will take us high into the mountains into areas without roads. It should be beautiful and hopefully, without forest fires.
On our last trip through this area we were pulling our big 5th wheel. Now that we have a more maneuverable rig we are planning to stay in some National Park sites that we couldn't get into last time - at Great Sand Dunes National Park and will also be staying in Mesa Verde National Park and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. Lots of places with no Internet or electricity. This will definitely impact my timely blogging.
During the winter this year I have edited my blogs (and missed a lot of errors according to Rick) and put five years of travel memories into a book for me and my kids. I love to look back at where we have been and relive our adventures. I was worried that the electronic version of these trips will someday evaporate so it seemed like time to make it more permanent on paper.
I look forward to sharing this new trip with you.
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