Nice day. Nice night.

We had a quiet day and evening at Ft Boonesborough. Cooked hot dog (some over the campfire) with some beans. Went for a walk around the campground. Talked to a nice man from Berea named Steve who had a MPG camper similar to our RPod. Now the boys are resting in the camper and I'm sitting by the fire. Wish my woman was with me. But the weather is about perfect.

I am going to try and get the family to attend the RPod rally at the Kentucky Horse Park the weekend of the 16th. That is if I can get a spot.

Looking forward to being home with my woman tomorrow. Have a good night.

First trip of 2012 to Ft Boonesborough KY

Have gone on a small overnight trip to Ft Boonesborough KY. Erika stayed home and we brought Tammy's youngest Jesse. Have already walked the trail up to the fort already. Looking forward to dinner and a fire tonight.

Day 5 cont'd

Got up this morning very early to take care of some work stuff 5:30am local time. Worked on some pictures for an hour or so and let the family sleep a few longer.

Once we all got up we washed up ate something and got ready to go back to the edge of the canyon. I went and finally shaved off my Grizzly Adamsq beard Erika said I had.

We hiked down the South Kaibib Trail part of the way down the face. We went down perhaps 600 ft before we decided to come back up. It's the trail they take the mules down so not only did we have to watch our footing, we had to watch for mule dung as well. The walk back up was way worse and just shows me how out of shape I am. Once we got back up we rode the bus back to the visitors center and drove back to our camper. We hooked up and drove to Navajo Point and ate lunch overlooking the canyon.






The last place we went in the canyon was Desert View. Was a watch tower overlooking the canyon 4 stories high. Was a great way to end our trek.



We are now on our way to Four corners and Mesa Verde driving across some barren but beautiful land. Homes are very few and far between. I could never live in a climate like this.



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Day 5

Sorry we have been behind on the blogs. Our days have been very full and we have stopped at a McDonalds on the way to Mesa Verde in order for Erika to do her work.

We woke up yesterday in holbrook NM, and traveled back to the painted desert and petrified forest that we missed so late on Saturday. The views of the painted desert were amazing. I wish we were able to see it at sunset but the vast size alone was humbling. We then moved on to the Petrified Forest and I actually liked it more. The history stored in stone and detail was fun for us all. The boys enjoyed it all.

We then moved on and passed thru Winslow AZ, but we forgot to check out the corner. So we headed to Sunset crater and other stops on the way to the Grand Canyon.

We arrived at the Grand Canyon at about 6pm. We stopped at the Grand View trailhead. If I have a chance tonight I will post these pictures but it was fun. It was a very steep climb down. We went down maybe about 100ft before we turned around. We made camp and went to the visitors center and caught the greatest sunset yet. As we were walking out a boys choir was singing "America the Beautiful" in the waining light.

We went back to the camper and at dinner 9:30 again which is 12:30 pm at home. We are gonna be really messed up when we get home. Made pasta again. And crashed for the night.


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Day 4 morning

Well here we go again. Yesterday we traveled from tucomcari NM to albaquarci where we tried to go to lunch at a favorite old restaurant of Erika's called Panchos. But that ended up being closed. She was crushed. So we went down to old town to find us a nice Mexican restaurant to eat at and that ended up being a bad lunch also.

So we hit the road again and went to the Ice Cave and Bandera Volcano. These were great. We did a small walk (but you would think it was 10 miles the way the kids where whining) up to the edge of the Bandera Volcano. It was awe inspiring. Then we walked down to the ice cave. It was incredible. You go down 75 steps to a open cave that has 20ft of ice frozen on the floor. The temp never goes above 31 degrees year round. I could have stayed down there all day.

Then we went like a bat out of hell to make it to the Painted Desert before sunset but by the time we got there it was closed but we still were witness to one very awe inspiring sunsets.

We went to our campground after that and made a nice pasta dinner that at that time was what Erika said was "one of the best dinners I ever had". I think it was because it was 11:30 EST when we ate it. Lol. Then we went inside started watching National Lampoons Vacation and we all passed out for the night. I just posted this at 9:22pm MST. I am barely on any kind of connection so I will write another post shortly but I will post photos tomorrow. Get ready for some good ones. Took over 800+ today alone.


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Day 3 morning

Last night we stayed in Tucumcari New Mexico. We didn't make it there til almost 2am. Luckily we gained another hour because of Mountain Time. We are two hours behind our normal time back home in KY now.

Now we are on our way to Albuquerque. We just couldn't make it last night. Not sure what all we'll be getting into today but we will end up in Holbrook AZ, Lord willing.

Last night at midnight we stopped at the secon largest cross in the western hemisphere in Groom TX. They have statues representing Jesus' crucifixion. It was very humbling to see.

I will try to post pictures on facebook soon of everything. Just haven't had a chance yet.

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Day 2 cont'd cont'd

Hello all. Its mike posting this time. Erika is driving and we are about An hour west of Oklahoma City. We stopped by the national park service office and got a yearly pass for the trip and more. We stopped by the memorial as well. Its a beautiful memorial and very sad.


We are about to pass a large set of wind farms.



The sun is setting now very nice. Still 100 degrees wow. Might post again later. Tune in.


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