Wild Wild West

The wide-open plains of Kansas were sporadically dotted with cattle and the fields of brown sorghum were blowing in the wind. Screw that! Who writes like that🤣🤣

Started this week by heading into Colorado.  Along the way we saw many fields of Sorghum and many cattle ranches. I would have stopped to take a picture of the massive ranch, but it smelled so bad that I may have passed out & died. We ventured on and will save our death story for later. Arrive at a campsite close to my first wild west destination. Pictured below are a few of the beautiful campers at our resort!! We are classy people and just don't camp anywhere.

After seeing this it was cocktail time!  Then this other fabulous trailer pulled in next door and it was cocktail time again. A BBQ Carnival trailer that was twice the size of our and right out our front door.  While this guy was hooking up he left his vodka bottle on the electrical post.  Classy for sure!!

We ventured on to the wild, wild west destination.  Old Bents Fort in middle of nowhere Colorado!  It was a most excellent experience.  I love these old places where they take you back to what they call a simpler life.  Who doesn't want to get scalped or die of dysentery!  All I know is that I could have survived both and been a useful citizen of this fort had I lived back then.   As you may know from past posts, I almost die once a week, but who's to say that I would not have written a death story daily had I lived then.  Anyhow...lots of cool old tool and kitchen stuff.  This was a trading post for furs and has an amazing story.  If you are ever in the area of middle of nowhere Colorado, you should go and see this for yourself.  Enjoy the pictures!!

We stayed in Lamar, CO for a couple of days and did a bit of disc golf/adventuring. Nothing super exciting but we had fun.  While Dick golfed, I ventured off on my own but was first warned by two cute old ladies to watch out for the bugs.   I ignored their warning and set off!  I gotta tell you they were right!  Colorado is full of weird insects. Must be all the pot growing everywhere.  Just the smell in the air is enough to get you high!! Love metal art!!!

Bet you can not guess what this is!!??  I will miss this in the great southwest! Different region different beauty!!

More disc golf and a walk in the park.  Picked up more treasured items to paint and two new feathers.  

We went to an old train station and dam near got runned over by this beast!!  It is supper funny how this was a rust bucket with holes all over it and they filled them in with great stuff foamy shit and painted over is.  Needless to say, they need to repaint.  Still a cool contraption and Sheldon Cooper would have loved it!!

After all that super wild west stuff we headed to Pueblo to visit friends.  Camped at a beautiful park and has a great time visiting with them all and got to see the progression of a painting on the side of their building. Pueblo is a pretty cool place. We could see ourselves living in this town someday!  No pictures of town.  Sorry....go visit!

New Mexico was as pretty as ever.  We stayed on some free BLM land for a night and visited with some friend who live there as well. Drank so beer, went to a distillery and a high school soccer game too.  It was a short visit but a good one just the same.

Made it to Tombstone AZ 

More fun adventures to post next Sunday!!

Kentucky was a blast!

So glad we went to visit friends, revisit golf course, parks and breweries and strike a bargain for some honey!!!  SCORE!!

 

Our Son in Law Dan has recently become a beekeeper but he has not had any honey yet.  Soon enough we will bargain with him.  I love bartering!! This stuff is so good and we are so very happy to have Walt as a friend!!

I spit shined the truck and my arm still hurts from wax on, wax off.  She sure is pretty though.  Hopefully she will take us another 250 thousand miles!

We had to pay to do laundry for the 1st time in a year and a half.  It was freaky sitting in the little campground laundry once again.  I did however notice that they hadn't changed the signs I put up since we were here 1-1/2 years ago.  I never asked if I could do so then and I am glad they kept them up.  A few commonsense rules never hurt anyone. You would not believe the idiot who didn't shake out their dog bedding or rugs before washing!!  I hate dog hair in my clothes.  SIGNS WORK!!

We spend a few hours in East Frankfort Park disc golfing and checking out all the improvements that this park has made. Super impressed.  Thank you, Kentucky Government for not letting this little gem go to waste! We also found big piles of firewood, but Dick wouldn't carry it back for me!!  I guess I could have asked but I just thought he'd say no so lets just say he wouldn't!!

Goodbye Frankfort and all our friends and we will see you next time we are passing through.  On to Effingham, IL to get a our second shingles shot.  We went to the QUAD MED there because it was free for us.  $250 this thing cost at the pharmacy.  What a racket!!!  A few miles out of the way and more disc golf and beer.  MY ARM is killing me!!  Who would have thunk that a shingle shot hurt so many days after.  At least I got a blingy band aide.

Kind of a frightening piece of art!  Dang hoodlums!!

We were off and running to Columbus, MO.  Apparently, there is a super fabulous disc golf course there.  WELL, I almost died.  There were elevation changes, steps and hills just about everywhere. Streams and gullies filled with water and drop off that if you lost a disc.....it would be certain death to try to find it.  Luckily Dick is a pretty great shot, and I didn't lose him because there is no way in hell I was going after any wayward discs!!

In Columbus we found a neat little brewer Bur Oak, and they let us stay in their parking lot for the night.  This is always a good thing because then we can hang out longer, drink more and chit chat with other people until we start to slur.  Just kidding!! We are not raging alcoholics! Just alcoholics! 😲

We hung out and played card and cribbage, ate a pizza because pizza is LIFE, then headed out the back door and crashed.

We rolled a couple hours down the road to our sister in laws brother house for the night.  Nice to know people all over.  It is completely stupid and insane to park at a campground for a night and pay upwards of $50 sometimes when there are so many places to stay for free.  NOT just family and friend houses but so many places you can stay for free if you are smart like me!!  HA HA!! 

We left our free night and traveled on to Great Bend Kansas. Dam near had our house picked up by the wind. If it had been I am sure it world have landed on a wicked witch 🧙‍♀️! Traveling on tomorrow and no internet so you get a post a day early!! Happy days are always ahead!