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Hold on to your socks…this is what happens when I tell John it’s his turn to post! 😁….

To make a long story long. As we posted earlier I was super conflicted with Fort Collins. I was getting crazy mixed messages from my guides. We love Colorado but like California it has shitty roads, shitty traffic, lots of homeless people and expensive in Denver and Fort Collins

I left my credit card at a bar in Eagle Colorado the day before. No I was not drunk, only lunch and one beer. Eagle is about the size of Geyserville in the middle of the Rockies. I had been calling them but no one answered the phone. I finally called the Eagle Police Department. An officer went to the bar and called me. They had my credit card and their phone was not working. I started talking with the officer and told him about Fort Collins. He said he lived there for a year prior to moving to Eagle in 2015. He loved Fort Collins, but he said it was a crazy hectic college town with crazy traffic and no matter where you are in town it takes you 15 minutes to get to the freeway.

Anyway the moral of my long story longer is even when you are having a hard time with things, keep listening to your guides. They will help you know, sometimes even in the most subtle way, what is best. In this case, clarifying that Fort Collins probably isn’t the best place for us.

When we got up today we checked out Pueblo, which is actually a really nice town. In 1984 the steel company gave pick slips to 6,500 employees devastating the local economy. The city really has not recovered and there is a lot of run down homes and shuttered business. Even so Kimberly and I liked the town but decided to head south.

Kimberly was really interested in Trinidad Colorado because it was smaller and supposedly up and coming. We liked Trinidad and stopped for lunch and a beer of course. Town was cute but still pretty economically depressed and not enough water for paddle boarding.

Here comes Texas. Yes it was time to head for Texas. We drove through the north east part of New Mexico and there was nothing there. Onto north west Texas and wow still nothing there. It was all super flat and ranch land and the oil. We drove until it got late and slept in a truck stop parking lot south of Lubbock. No that is not a country song.

Long day with a long drive tomorrow.Read more