A new Addition (Abilene, KS)

 

Evelyn Noelle Brody came into the world at 12:43pm UAE time, May, 14 2014.  She is 7 lbs.

Evelyn, Caroline and even Andrew are all doing well.

Life is Great on the Roan Road…

Up UP and Away (Abilene, KS)

 

We are now in Abilene, KS about 15 miles from the factory where we will have some work done on our home.  We will stay in Abilene a week until our appointment. 

While visiting the Rocky Mountain NP we stayed in Loveland, CO.  Last Sept 11 a massive flood devastated the area.  They are just starting to cleanup. The roads are open, but there is still a lot to do.   Loveland is a beautiful city with great shopping and some lovely sculpture gardens. It is a city block of fantastic sculptures and magnificent gardens.

We made two trips to the Rocky Mountain National Park.  Both trips had their WOW factor.  All the National Parks have WOW factors, each in their own way.

Rocky Mountain National Park

This was the highest point we could go.

 

We will be checking out a tourist attractions here in  Abilene this week.  Next week we will be relaxing.  Nothing much to do when getting things fixed on our home except to talk to other New Horizons owners.  Then on to the upper peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan. 

I know how everyone must feel sorry for us and the tough life we live, but someone has to do it.

To all of you who have birthdays this month, party hearty and enjoy!!

Happy Anniversary to Heidi and Jay!

Life is Great on the Roan Road…   So come join us!!!

Pikes Peak or Bust (Loveland, CO)

 

We just spent two weeks in Colorado Springs, CO.  We had a somewhat busy weeks.  We took a ride around the Air Force Academy Campus. Sorry no pictures.

This is the scene out our dining room window here in Colorado Springs.

That’s Pikes Peak.

We took a scenic drive and found the Florissant Fossil Beds NM.  These are pictures of petrified Red Wood trees.

Next we went to the Cliff Dwellings.  It was very interesting to see the way these people lived thousands of years ago.  This is a commercial site not public.  While interesting and well kept the so called Museum was one big gift shop.  Very little Museum thingies.

Just north of Colorado Springs is Manitou Springs, home of Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak Cog Railroad.  The town of Manitou Springs in a great little tourist town with many shops and restaurants.  We decide to take the railway up to the top.  When we started at the bottom, about 6000 ft., It was around 50 degrees.  We were prepared and dressed in layers.  What we were not prepared for is what happened at the top.  The train pulls itself up on a cog in the center of the track.

What we were not prepared for was the weather at the top.  First it was 22 degrees with a wind chill of -9 degrees.  The wind was harsh. Then the ground was covered with ice and snow.  Add to that the altitude of 14,100 feet.  We were both dizzy and sick.  We huddled inside the gift shop at the top until it was time to board the train down the mountain.  Needless to say we did not take many pictures at the top.  The views were magnificent.  Most of the pictures are from the nice warm train.  So in many of the pictures you can see reflections in the glass.  Even with all this it was a worthwhile ride.

Next onto Rocky Mountain NP.

Life is Pretty Damn Good on the Roan Road…

Utah Rocks Part 2 (Colorado Springs, CO)

 

Next we went to Wonderview RV park and visited Capital Reef NP.

 

Capital Reef

 

After Capital Reef, we moved to stayed at Archview RV Resort in Moab Utah.  A nice RV park only in was Jeep Safari Week and every RV park was full.  All you could see was every type of Jeep and ATV.  Moab, it turns out is the Dirt Bike and Jeep capital.  From Archview RV Park we could easily get to Arches NP and Canyonlands NP.

 

Canyonlands National Park

 

 

Arches National Park

Arches National Park

And on to Colorado, up and over two 11,000 ft passes pulling our house on I-70.   OMG!!!  Stay tuned.

Life is Super on the Roan Road…

Utah Rocks Part 1 (Colorado Springs, CO)

 

This pretty much sums up Utah.

Utah has more beautiful national parks than any other state IMHO.  We left the Grand Canyon and headed north to Utah.  We stayed at an RV park, Bauer’s RV park, between Zion and Bryce so we could see both without moving.

People ask us “which National Park we like the best” ,  Each has its own character and special features.

Zion National Park:

Bryce Canyon National Park

 

Bryce Canyon National Park

Best Friend

 

More to come.  So stay tuned to this Web Site for Part 2.

Life is great on the Roan Roan road…..

Happy, Happy (Torrey, UT)

 

Happy Passover and Easter to all our family and friends from Roan on the Road.

 

On the Move (Glendale, UT)

 

We are now officially on the move doing the National Park tour.  So I will make each blog a different National Park.  First is the Grand Canyon. 

The first thing we do when we go to any National Park is to go to the Visitor’s  Center and get the lay of the land.  See what there is to see, what  free shuttle bus service there is, what ranger talks are being given and see the movie about the park.  We arrived at the Grand Canyon Visitor’s Canter around 10AM.  It was cold and it started to snow.  It was that wet, heavy, large flaky snow.  It snowed so hard that is was almost a white out.  We went through the visitor center and decided to call it a day and go home.  The snow was coming down so hard it blocked my satellite reception for a few hours.  I was not a “happy camper!”

The good new is the next day was a beautiful sunny, warm day.   The snow started melting early in the AM.

Now for some pictures.  And do we have pictures, only 364 between the two of us.  Here are just a few.

First a video:

Grand Canyon

Stay tuned for the next installment.. Zion National Park.

Life is Great on the Roan Road…..