COLORADO SPRINGS!!!! 6-25-2017

Pulled into Golden Eagle Ranch Campground yesterday here in Colorado Springs. We will hang out here for a few days before we drive to Creede. Today we took a tour of the May Natural History Museum which is right here at the campground. It is the largest collection of bugs and insects in the world. Travis came over and visited with us and stayed for dinner. Today we had a little rain with multiple rainbows afterwards.  The Museum started as  a traveling show then planted at Weeki Washi in Florida.  Disney wanted to purchase it and it was not for sale so they moved to here.  It's irreplaceable but worth 4-6 million.

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 Travis with Joey

 

Some of the insects date back to 1907.  Walt Disney offered to buy the whole display but he would not use John Mays name,  Was a no go,  Irreplaceable but estimated to be worth 4-6 million!!!!

It was so nice to have one of my sons here and to fish with him.,...even tho we didn't catch anything!!

THE LINCOLN HIWAY KEARNEY, NEBRASKA JUNE 23, 2017

 Before Kearney, we went thru small town of about 800 people, ALMA , NEB!!!!

THE ARCHWAY ON THE LINCOLN HIWAY.  GO IN ONE SIDE AND THE MUSEUM GOES  TO CENTER OF ARCH WITH A RADAR SET UP  IN A LARGE WINDOW TO WATCH THE TRAFFIC.  

During all this travel and sightseeing....Kari  is having testing on her non-hodgkins lymphoma.  She's very positive and waiting for her Momma to get there for her treatment she'll have monthly for a few months.

ONWARD......... TO COLORADO!!!!!! JUNE 22, 2017

Winnie Service got done with our coach by noon on Thur. after working on it for a day and a half.........seven items on my list and got them done in record time. We left that afternoon and made our way to Colorado staying at Cobb Memorial Park in Ida Grove, IA on Thur, Kearney RV Park in Kearney, NE last night and Outback RV Park in Burlington, CO tonight. Tomorrow we will be staying in Colorado Springs for several days before heading to Creede. While in Kearney we visited the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument which spans I-80. Inside the arch is a museum that shows you the migration of settlers from the east to California in the early 1800's. We also learned about the first coast to coast highway, the Lincoln Highway which I learned about in school but forgot.

Winnie Service got done with our coach by noon on Thur. after working on it for a day and a half.........seven items on my list and got them done in record time. We left that afternoon and made our way to Colorado staying at Cobb Memorial Park in Ida Grove, IA on Thur, Kearney RV Park in Kearney, NE last night and Outback RV Park in Burlington, CO tonight. Tomorrow we will be staying in Colorado Springs for several days before heading to Creede. While in Kearney we visited the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument which spans I-80. Inside the arch is a museum that shows you the migration of settlers from the east to California in the early 1800's. We also learned about the first coast to coast highway, the Lincoln Highway which I learned about in school but forgot.

SUMMER JUNE-JULY 2017 TO IOWA, CREEDE AND UTAH

June 15 we left home for Forest City, Iowa.  Usually go yearly to have THE LIST  checked out on our coach.........our 2014 JOURNEY, new to us as of Nov.  Home had very high humidity and high temps.  Found out Karen and Anthony are moving into Livingston and still looking for possibly a place at the beach.  Winnie Hatch is looking after our place and watering plants for me.  Thank you, Winnie.
I'm dealing with the news that my Kari has non -hodgkins Lymphoma.  Red nodules to her forehead and face, itchy.  God help her thru this.
We drove to Sulphur Springs, Tx for the night.  Beautiful weather.....green, green, green!!!
OMGosh,....the roads in Oklahoma are like driving in Louisiana!!!!!  Soooo many tolls!!!  What in the world are they doing with our toll payments??????   Didn't see any construction!!!!!

Weather got really windy at our stay over in Oklahoma.  Blowing, rocking and rolling!!!  Next morning news said 60mph wind gusts!!!!  Rain !!!!!!

Next day drove to Cameron, Missouri to Pony Express RV Park.  We remembered staying here last year or year before,  This time the Electric kept throwing the Emergency breaker thingy on our new coach.    Mike called propriater and he refunded $20.  The Indian PaintBrush are very pretty along the highway.   Really beautiful today til we got to Forest City.  Cloudy!!!!Very cool!!!! 75 degrees and NO humidity.
Happy Fathers Day!!!

 Sulphur Springs, TX.

 Miami, Ok.

 Cameron, Missouri

 
 Destination for now>>>>>FOREST CITY, IOWA    for maintenance.