Sept. 27,2009

After leaving OR. we stopped in Wellington UT. so Jerry could go to the dinosour musem there, stayed there for a few days, just to catch up with everything like buying food and doing the laundry, then onto Moab, went to the Arches National Park, very beautiful to see, I have to say one of the best things we did before starting out on our trip is get a Sr. Pass from the National Parks, only cost $10.00 and it lasts a life time and gets you in all the National parks, it has saved us a lot of money.

Now in Durgrano, CO. for four nights, we were going to do the train ride thru the mountains, but was a little more then we wanted to spend so we did the 200 hundred mile drive instead, was glad we did as we could stop when we wanted and got a lot of good photos, also took the tram up too a view point at one of our stops and that was free.

We are now in N.M. for the balloon festival which we have tickets for on the 3rd of Oct. so we are able to day trip from the park we are staying in which is between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, so yesterday went into Santa Fe for the day, had a fun day, had lunch @ Berts Burgers, they had won a contest for the best burgers on a cook off on TV which I had seen a while back so wanted to go there, they were good but my own are just as good, so Jerry and I thought. Jerry went off to a car show today not to far from the park, I choose to stay at home to do things I wanted to do.

Was thinking about some different things as most of the parks we, have stayed in have been by train tracks and we can hear the trains in the distance,so when I thought about it when I was growing up we lived not far from the train station and so we could hear the trains when going by and also with-in at least 15 mile there was a prison. Jerry and I have lived in three states, since getting married, of cousre we started in MD., then VA. and FL. all the homes we lived in were near enough that we could hear the trains passing and all had a prison near by, so when I starting hearing the trains in the parks where we stay I checked to see if there was a prison near by and most of the places there was indeed one near by. Just thought that was interesting so I wanted to share.

That's all for now will write more after going to the Balloon Festival!

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Been a while hope all my family and friends are doing very well, have a little story to tell you as you know we were all sit to go on a cruise to Alaska on the 29th and we did indeed go and had a great time, I just love being treated like a Princess and being waited on for a whole week, plus we saw lots of good sites, we did the inside passage and had very good weather while in port and were told that this was the first cruise to leave Seattle in Aug. that had no rain in port. Had a couple of rough sea nights the first two out and the six night on the way back it was the worst of the three. Any way on the way to the RV park that we were booked into for two weeks and that we could leave our RV on site while gone, I always called about an hour from RV park to get directions from where we turn off and I did so on the 28th, we had pulled into rest stop to make call and take a break, Oh what a good thing that I am in the habit of doing that as when I called to get directions, I told the lady that answered the phone where we were and she prceeds to tell me how far way we are from park and I said oh no we are only about 30 miles out, she said not from what you just told me, so ask where she was, guess what she was in OR. I said no we are booked into the one in Snoqualmie, WA. anyway they had booked us into wrong park, so had to call the reservations number, and I am wondering just what we are going to do as some parks will not let you leave your RV for more then 24 hours with out their approval, so told the young lady at the reservation place what had just happen, she wasn't sure what to do, but it was their mistake as I told her when I made the reservations, I had to spell the name of the town and the girl told me how to say it, well that park is no longer there, so she did find us another park that had an opening that was not far from 1st one and was in our program. So we arrive about an hour later get sit up in spot and go to check in at the office to see if they wanted us to leave keys, in case something would come up where they would need to get in and the lady on the desk said of you can't leaveRV on a site unless you have pre-approval, I said I thought the reservations placetook care of that, she had told all is ok, well long story short, she findly got the manager to let us put in dry storage and said when we get back to come see her and she would give us a spot for the remainer of our stay!! We really wanted to be on the site for the electric for frig. but at that point we did not have a choice, we would have to leave it on propane so frig would stay cool, I had used most of our meat, thank goodness as when we got back the propane had went out, but only had been off long enough to defrost the freezer, so di not loose much, still was beterr then having to find some where else to leave and then we would have had to pay for it, that would have been a most exspensed cruise!!! So all is indeed very good and we were able to spend a little time in Seattle and went up in the space needle and to Pipe's market what a place that is.

We left Seattle on the 11th and stayed in Pendleton, OR @ a park called Wildhorse Resort & Casino, Jerry had a nice birthday dinner there and won a few dollars, stayed for two nights so we could take the tour of the underground, they build a city over the old one, was interesting. They were getting ready for their big rodeo week an we were able to see the big parade, got some good photos, had a very good day was tried when got back home.

We are on the road again and in a park where they had Wi-fi so am able to get this all updated, we will go onto Utah tomorrow and might stay in Price for a couple of nights then onto Moab for about three days. We also gained an hour today.

More next time out, so that's a wrap for now. I will try to get some photos in.