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Rockies and Red Rocks

September - October 2023
Targeting Colorado, Utah, & New Mexico. A road trip camping in the back of our Dodge minivan. Starting off thinking this will be a 6 week trip, we will see how it goes. Read more
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  • Rockies and Red Rocks
    Day 30

    Santa Fe to Austiin

    October 4, 2023 in the United States

    We drove from Santa Fe to Austin with an overnight stay on Lubbock, TX. We were going to visit Jacque and help her with some house projects. Through New Mexico and West Texas we passed a lot of open fields, cotton plants, oil rigs, and so many wind turbines. We stopped at Cadillac Ranch. - an art exhibit. A man paid some California artists to create an art exhibit on his ranch. They took 10 Cadillacs, one from each year, and buried them nose down so the Cadillac fins stuck up. After a while, people started defacing the Cadillacs with spray paint and eventually it was encouraged to do so. Today they sell paint right on the property. There is so much paint on the cars that you can't identify them as Cadillacs. At Jac's we built a fence, did yardwork, spent time with Bear, and enjoyed family time!Read more

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    Day 36

    New Orleans

    October 10, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F

    We traveled from Austin to New Orleans. Jeff had only been there for business and I had never been there. We spent three nights here. The first evening we are at Coop's Place for dinner good Southern Cajun/Creole cooking followed by beignets from Cafe du Mond - yum!!

    Over the next two days we took a tour of the lower garden area seeing historic houses, some owned by famous people now. In the afternoon we took a food walking tour of the French Quarter sampling some iconic food of the area - gumbo, po-boy, muffelata, praline, red beans and rice, and banana foster bread pudding. Both tours included a lot of history of there area.

    We spent a rainy afternoon (almost 5 hours) at the WWII museum. It was very well done and we only saw half of the exhibits. We also saw the French Market, the St Louis Cathedral, and the Riverwalk along the Mississippi River.

     We spent our evenings on Bourbon St and Frenchman St enjoying a lot of different kinds of music and drinks. When we arrived, I (Eileen) wans't overly impressed, but by the time we left, I didn't want to leave. There is so much to do.    Read more

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    Day 40

    New Orleans to home

    October 14, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F

    After one more round of beignets from Cafe de Monde, we headed to Memphis TN for our first night's stay. Along the way we saw many cotton fields and rolls of cotton! We checked in at the T.O.Fuller State
    Park campground and then went to Beale St for dinner and music. We ate at BBKings while being entertained by some great live music. Then we walked the streets checking out various musicians along the way. A short but fun visit. The second day was a shorter drive (4 hours) to St Louis. We were meeting up with Josh and Liz. Since they were still working when we got there, we went to Lumeire Sculpture Park. It is a very nice and spacious park with almost 70 sculptures. It was a great place to stretch our legs and spend a couple of hours. Next we met up with Josh and Liz, drove to what will soon be their new house and then walked to a brewery and a pizza place for dinner. It was another short, but wonderful visit!! We drove about 1.5 hours before spending the night in Effingham. The next morning we started the final leg home driving in and out of rain. It was a great trip!    Read more

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