Kansas - Colorado

Minooka Park, Plymouth, Kansas

March 25-27, 2017

We were the only people in this 159 site campground!

 Great kayaking on Wilson Lake - right out our back door!

 Crystal clear water with beautiful scenery!

 Dave painted his face with red rock

 The rocks are pretty! 

Very serene...

 The park had some nice hiking trails too

 Geologist loving the scenery

This rock was pretty cool! Looked like a cracked egg shell.

 Wendy watching Dancing with the Stars

 Took a million pictures of the sunset!

But we'll only post two!

Denver area, Colorado

April 1-7, 2017

 Our campsite at Bear Creek Lake Park in Morrison, Colorado

(the path in the distance between the rv and jeep is a bike/jogging path up to the dam)

From the top of the bike path

 On top of the dam. You can see Denver in the background.

Riding around the reservoir at the bottom of the path.

 Red Rock Amphitheater

 They had a drumming circle going on while we were there. So we got to hear some music...

but would love to see a real concert here!

Right down the middle of the stadium from the very top

 We got about 4-5 inches of snow last night

Just enough to make everything look pretty!

We don't own a snow scraper anymore so Dave used our dustpan brush to clean off the jeep

 What do you do on a snowy day? Go to Celestial Seasonings for a tea tour. LOL!

 Tea!!

 The tea story

Drinking tea in a tea cup

Lots of tea sampling along the way!

Dinosaur Ridge

 Wave ripples...they used a photo of a beach in the Tampa area as an example for the environment that caused the ripple marks

 Dino tracks!

 So cool!

 Hiked this trail in Red Rocks

In the background is the bridge up to the Red Rocks Amphitheater

 So pretty!

Gorgeous views in every direction!

Rocky Mountain National Park - Estes Park

 Drove to Rocky Mountain National Park - Estes Park to do some hiking 

(don't know who the people are in this pic...I snapped this as we drove by).

 Passed elk grazing along the road on the way

Elk

 We decided to hike the Fern Lake trail to "the pool"

 Beautiful day for a hike through the snow

Sign directing us to the pool

 Didn't see much wildlife along the way, but the views were spectacular!

Snow melt waterfalls

 Avalanche zone

 We made it to the pool

The Pool

 Mountain views on the drive out

Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Commerce City, Colorado

Bison along the road in the wildlife refuge

Coors Factory Tour

 Coors Banquet bus took us to the factory

 They took pictures of everyone as they entered the brewery. 

We looked so silly, I had to buy the pics!

 Outside of factory

 Flavors and bottles in the quality control room.

 The packaging room

 Tasting menu for the day

 You get three free tastings

Coors Light shuttle took us back to the parking lot

Occasionally things go wrong...

Our driver side slide broke when we got to Bear Creek. Dave did some investigating and saw that a cable carrier had broken. He was able to track down the manufacturer and order a part to be mailed "general delivery" to a local post office. The manufacturer sent it free of charge and Dave was able to fix the slide. We haven't had a problem since.