A little update. We had gone on a factory tour of Holiday Rambler/Monaco, to see how they made our coach. After the tour, Ian and I played Bingo with the old folks, and one of the ladies taught Ian to play cribbage. The fantastic service techs were able to fix the steering problem and gave the motor home a clean bill of health. We left Indiana and Camp Monaco on Friday morning.
Friday night we stayed in Lincoln, Nebraska. We saw the corn Husker's stadium and had midwestern Mexican food. I don't recommend it. Timing was perfect, as the Good Guys were having a giant hot rod show at the Lincoln fairgrounds. After dinner, we parked downtown and watched all the hot rods and muscle cars cruise the boulevard. There were some great cars and we are even more excited to finish the 31.
Saturday afternoon we arrived at Estes Park in Colorado. It is very beautiful here. The weather is perfect, hot in the sun, chilly in the evenings and now and then the perfect blue sky clouds up for a little rain, then the sun comes back out. Almost like Hawaii, except for the extremely high altitude, thin air, no ocean, ....,
Ian is having a great time. He can fish all he wants ($7.00 a day limit 3) in the lake here in our campground. He has also fished in the stream. The trout was delicious and we are hoping to bring some home. (I even bought a license yesterday and caught one myself.
Last night we went on a wildlife search. We drove around looking for bear, elk, deer, whatever. We saw two rabbits, one coyote, a delk (we weren't sure if it was a deer or an elk) but no bears. Then we saw more elk, more deer, still no bears. Finally we came up on a whole herd of elk, probably about 50. We were watching them, when one of the large bucks (?) (big antlers) got a large piece of plastic stuck on his antler. He went nuts. Starting circling and the whole herd stampeded into the forest. It was really cool. Probably as good as seeing a bear. The elk have also wandered through our campground, but no stampede and only a half dozen or so at a time.
We are heading home tomorrow morning (Friday) and plan to be home Saturday night.
