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May, 2025

Hi everyone! We are camping at Buffalo Bill State Park for the next two weeks, about 35 miles outside of the park. We are on the Lake Shore section and next week will move to the North Fork section. We love the layout and space.

More views from the campsite:

And yes we saw grizzly bears!!

We drove into Yellowstone this morning, looking for wildlife. We noticed several cars clustered st an overlook. We couldn’t even find a parking space so I got out and walked up while Vic drove part way down the hill and waited.

What I found was a crowd of photographers taking pictures of a mama grizzly bear playing with her two cubs in the snow. Yes that’s right I said snow. There is a lot of snow still on the ground and it even snowed while we were there!

They sure were having fun!

We saw a marmot and a squirrel.

Also elk and bison.

And lastly, this hawk.

Hope you enjoyed our post. We’ll be back with more photos soon. ❤️

Stay safe everyone.

May 11, 2025

We’ve had a wonderful time here in Colorado Springs. Dawn, Vic’s daughter, has been with us most of the time. Zoe thinks Dawn is part of her “pack”. We’ve had several fires, met some great people who will remain friends. We even made a friend out of the RV repair guy Richard who came out and worked on our hydraulics. Richard might come out and camp with us at Yellowstone. He told us about Crystal Park Cantina, an amazing Mexican restaurant in an out of the way place. We had the best Mexican food I’ve ever tasted.

We’ve played lots of card games.

We watched the Kentucky Derby. I made hot pastrami sandwiches with homemade coleslaw and Russian dressing. They were scrumptious!

Our neighbors James and Olivia, a young couple with a 6 month old baby girl (Riley) plan to meet up with us at Yellowstone too.

We had several inches of snow – beautiful to watch it come down in big fat flakes. Then it melted two days later – perfect. we just wanted to see it, not deal with it really lol.

We love this area, I’m sure we’ll be back at some point.

I do have some pictures to share and here they are.

He has spots along the side which don’t show in these photos.

This is our last post from Ft. Carson, Colorado Springs, CO. We are leaving on Monday and heading to Yellowstone.

Stay safe everyone ❤️

Camp Hale at Ft Carson CO

Most of these photos were taken in our campground and the rest at Cheyenne State Park which is a short drive away.

Now for my minute of bragging … these are all shots of a Northern Flicker Woodpecker.

Vic, Dawn, Zoe and I spent a couple of fun hours watching a couple of these woodpeckers flying back and forth around us.

Hope you enjoyed the show!!

The three of us were sitting outside playing a card game called Five Crowns (very fun game). The snow has melted all but a patch here and there. The sun is shining brightly, the sky is a vivid blue. We ate sushi from the Commissary for lunch (yum). There’s a strawberry shortcake for later.

We saw a hawk circling overhead. At first we thought it was an eagle (it was very high up) so I got my camera and started shooting.

I just had to share this with you all.

Look close – he was looking right at me!!!

And in case you haven’t seen the latest AI rendition of Zoe…

Stay safe everyone XO.

This campground is rustic. There are full hookups at each site, all pull throughs, and the pine tree forest (love the aroma) is right there bordering the campground. Very peaceful and relaxing here. Gravel roads make it dusty. We are still feeling the altitude but doing everything we can to acclimate. CO is about 6,000 ft.

Today is Easter. Happy Easter from Zoe and us!

Two days ago it snowed 5 inches. Soft fluffy snow falling hour after hour, it was so pretty. Yesterday the sun came out and it started melting. It’s gone from the roads, just a little “frosting” on the pine trees left.

Zoe (being a Florida dog) had never seen snow. She was perplexed at first.

Dawn is still with us. We’ve been playing cards and Yahtzee, fun times 🤗.

We’ll be here a couple of weeks waiting for the east entrance of Yellowstone to open.

Stay safe everyone! XO

We are staying here for just a few days. We love the wildness and expanse of this place. There are zero amenities unless you consider trash receptacles and vault style Port-O- potties amenities haha. It’s very windy here too so no campfires are allowed. A few other campers have come and gone but for the most part we are here by ourselves. Dawn, Vic’s daughter who lives in Colorado Springs, has come down to visit a few days. She got a ride down with Calvin, one of her room mates.

I made this video so you could hear the meadowlarks singing.

Zoe adores Dawn and has hardly left her lap since she got here. 😊

Zoe really likes Calvin too.

Dawn makes a killer curry and brought a batch with her. We’ve been enjoying it enormously.

We visited the camels, on a farm about 5 miles away.

On to Colorado Springs next. We’ll stay at Camp Hale/Ft Carson.

Stay safe everyone! XO

NM, 04.11.25

These are from yesterday afternoon.

We are going to Maxwell, NM tomorrow.

Stay safe everyone!

Riverside Campground NM

04.08.25

We got here on April 7th. After skipping across Texas we stopped at Ft. Bliss, an Army base, for 4 days.

The campsites at Carbello are spaced far apart, very roomy sites. Each one has a picnic table and a metal roof covering. The Rio Grande flows next to the campground.

Here is us:

I walked around in the late afternoon and saw several birds. The lighting wasn’t the best but I did get a Vermillion Flycatcher.

Now we are at Bosque del Apache, NM, one of our very favorite wildlife refuges. Early mornings are usually best but this time of year the afternoons have given us our best photo-ops.

This creature was so tame, he walked along the side of the road and didn’t react to our truck at all.

Stay safe everyone ❤️

We stayed in a crappy RV park last night. It got 5 star reviews but you should have seen how shabby and decrepit this place was. It made the top 5 list of worst places we have stayed. The guy in charge of things was extremely friendly and helpful. He was obviously the reason for the high rating but still… good grief.

We didn’t unhitch. There was nowhere to go. The town was full of neglected and abandoned buildings. The Walmart was 75 miles away. They had 2 Dollar stores.

We left early this morning, drove 5 hours, and decided to stop at this rest area. It’s super clean and nice. The parking lot is enormous. In the morning we will travel about 120 miles and we will be in Ft Bliss.

We’ve had a good few days here but will leave tomorrow. It’s going to be hot for the next few days then thunderstorms so we are not hanging around for that.

Yesterday we met up with Margo and Davey and Lily, the now 6 year old granddaughter they are raising. Margo is my oldest friend and I love her dearly. She lucked out finding Davey, he’s a heck of a guy and also a Marine. We met them for lunch at Ivar’s Pub on the River and had a delightful time.

It was a short visit but very enjoyable.

Stay Safe!