Visiting with Pam and Ben

I'm a little behind here, so am doing some "ketchup" work as Roger would call it.

We have been pretty busy - visiting with friends in Denver and then with our daughter and son-in-law in Colorado Springs. Both days of travel (Wed and Thurs) were easy short days.  We avoided the interstate as much as possible and took US routes to stay away from traffic and road work in the Denver area.  It worked well and added only a little time to the drive.  

We are at the U.S. Air Force Academy FamCamp just outside of Colorado Springs.  The campground is big, has some weird sites (one of which we have) but is very well maintained - something the Air Force does best of all the services.  It sits in pine trees at the foot of a mountain right at the edge of the academy grounds.  We  have great WIFI!!!  It's hotter than we expected at 7,000 feet, but we are having cloud cover so the sun isn't baking us too much.   Our biggest issue with the place is that it is near some train tracks and they run all night long.  Of course there is a crossing not far from here so we get the horns blasting as well as the sound of the train.  I don't notice them so much during the day, but, wow, are they noisy at night. In addition to the trains, this RV park has mountain lions and bears.  We've been warned to not leave pets outside unattended as the aforementioned predators will make quick snacks out of our pet. 

Maggie decided to eat a pine cone yesterday.  We were up cleaning the remains off of our carpet all night! That's how we knew it was a pine cone. Unfortunately, Maggie needed to go outside to continue to relieve herself at 3:15 A.M.   Rog took her out and was nervous as hell he was going to come face-to-face with lion who would make him a main course meal and Maggie the dessert.  Needless to say, it took him quite a while to go back to sleep once he and the dog got safely back inside.

Pam and Ben are due over in about an hour for the evening. They are well - Pam is loving her new job at Colorado College in the library.  We get a tour on Sunday!   Tomorrow the Air Force is having a home football game and access to the FamCamp is restricted (we will have to figure out what we are going to do). They must get some big crowds for their football games.  We drove past the stadium this morning and they were setting up the parking areas in several large fields.  

We will be here until Tuesday.  We haven't yet decided where we are going from here.  Watch this space..........

Glad not to be lion food!!!