Summer Trip Sept,Oct 2014

As Jeni and I continued on our summer travels,We left our camphost job for South Dakota and Custer State Park. Then we headed southwest into Colorado checking out Rocky Mountain National Park,Denver,and heading south stopping in Colorado Springs

this is the state park we stayed in at Colorado.springs.it sits atop a mountain that houses NORAD

this is where my parents took my brothers and I at Christmas time when we lived in Farmington NM.as kids

we visited some pueblo Indian cliff dwellings

we had to make this trip up pikes peak.Jeni remembers her family visiting here when they moved to phoenix

we stopped off at royal gorge bridge for a gander

yes I checked it out too!

quite a sight.you can walk across the bridge as normal traffic is not allowed.Add caption

the view of the gorge from the bridge

they had all 50 state flags hanging so Jeni found ours

what a view!

as we left royal gorge we headed south into new Mexico and something we wanted to see for some time

yes its the Albuquerque balloon festival

we had a ringside seat right on the field

i kinda cheated with the pictures a little as some shots were better on the big screen TV than 1000 ft. away.that's why you see the channel 4 logo on the picture.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves as this week long fest was just fantastic and Jeni and I will never forget this experience.

Well we just loved the Balloon Fest and the weather was fantastic.We are staying in Santa Fe because there is no place in Albuquerque to stay as all RV parks are full.
We are going to visit old Santa Fe next and move south and east on I-40.We have a couple of weeks left on our summer trip so we are going to make the most of it. All for now as we look back on a great week....on channel 4!