Wordless Wednesday - April 3, 2013

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Exploring Every Inch Of The Campground

Denver Is So Cool!

We left Goodland, KS around 7:30 a.m. yesterday.  Those darn stabilizer jacks caused us problems again. We think we irritated our only neighbor because we had our rig running for a while before we were able to take off.  It was a cold morning.  The windchill was 19.  Brrrr!  

Oh, I did a funny Sunday night.  We were walking in this large field and Mama kept telling us to go poop.  She harps on it sometimes and it is so annoying! I got tired of hearing it.  I went and then I did this new thing where I wipe my feet.  I know, other dogs do that, but it is new for me.  I started wiping my feet and my boot went flying off.  It looked like I had kicked a football it went so far.  It went way over Mama's head.  Mama and Dad started laughing and Dad told Mama to keep her eye on it because it was getting dark and he didn't want us to loose it in the dark.  It was funny!

The campground in Goodland.

Our rig parked next to the only other guest.

Scout loves the cool weather.

 

I had to bundle up.  Mama and I don't think the heater on the rig works very well.

Cows and a little snow in Colorado.

Oh my gosh!  We are almost to the campground!

We arrived in Denver yesterday around 11 a.m.   Actually, we are in Aurora, CO.  It is the city that had that terrible movie theater shooting last year.

 This campground is great!  It is a Poo Free Park for one thing.  BOL!   This poo bag dispenser is close to our site.  We have learned that using the bags that the parks have is a nice money saver for us.

 There are actually more people here than we expected.  The sites are large though and no one will be next to us.  We found some other sites that we thought were prettier, but this one works fine for us.

Our site for the next few weeks.

Look at all the space!

 You should see all the area to walk.  Mama says I am going to walk my paws off.  Last night, we walked on this path.  We made a left turn on it last night, but it looks like if we turn right, we will go for miles!  We are going to do that either today or tomorrow.

 Mama says I am like an engine.  I just go and go and go.  I don't even sniff.  I am focused on seeing everything around me.

This is a nice site.  The city is just over the hill.

Our rig.

 This morning, we saw about eight deer.  We have not seen any bear or mountain lions.  We don't think we really have to worry about them because we are basically in the city.

We just have to walk over this bridge to get to our rig.

 Scout is very happy here.  She likes the cooler weather.  Scout is like me in that we are always happy when we stay in a new location.  Mama says when we stay longer than a few weeks that I become stubborn on our walks and only want to go the way I want to go. 

This is a great place for us and we are very happy to be in Colorado for the next month.

Joey
The Greyhound Who Thinks Denver Is Cool

Getting Closer To Denver

We are getting closer to Denver.  We are now in the Mountain Time Zone.  We should be at our campsite in Denver by lunchtime tomorrow.

Today's trip went well.  We had trouble getting our stabilizing jacks to come up again, but it was not operator error this time. Dad says he needs to grease them.  We hope they come up tomorrow and then we will fix them in Denver.  We had more trouble with our braking alarm.  It appears there is a bad connection.  We stopped once because the red light came on which means the Jeeps' brakes were on while we were driving.  We were able to pull off at a gas station, but the Jeep was fine.   We will need to figure out where the bad connection is on the brake alarm system when we get to Denver.  It worked fine with the other motor home. 

There was one funny thing that happened today. We had just pulled out of the campground and we were making a left hand turn to get to the highway. Dad looked in the back up camera and didn't see the Jeep. Mama looked in the camera and said "WHERE'S THE JEEP?"  It turns out that Dad had the signal on and that switches the camera to the side view instead of the back view of the motor home.  BOL!  The Jeep was there, we just couldn't see it.

We saw buffalo today, but no photos as the camera's battery went dead.   We could have seen the world's largest prairie dog, but Dad said we didn't have time to stop.  They also had rattlesnakes and pigs that you could pet according to the signs.  We assume they mean you pet the pigs and not the rattlesnakes.  We saw a rattlesnake in our campsite last year and that was close enough for us.  There were also signs for a Prairie Dog Town.  It may have been the same place.  We are not sure.  We think Prairie Dog Town would have been fun to visit.

There were two bunnies running around the campground this morning.  Scout said maybe it was the Easter Bunny, but I don't think it was. 

Our campground here in Kansas is empty except for one other camper and they put us next to them.  The place is pretty basic.  It is very flat.  The place last night was full of hills.

We hope we don't have any typos in our post. We are tired and it looks fine to us.  BOL!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Gained An Hour Today

We Are In Oklahoma!

We arrived in Oklahoma around the time we expected even though we left 45 minutes late and our stops were longer than we planned.  We had a few stressful moments.  We couldn't get our stabilizing jacks to come up when we were leaving our campground.  It turns out it was operator error.  That is all we will say about that.  BOL!  Then, our alarm kept going off telling us that the braking system on the Jeep was not working correctly. It turns out that it was just a bad connection.  Dad was upset with the back up camera until he realized it was on nighttime mode instead of daytime. He didn't realize that until the end of the day.  We are still learning about this motor home compared to our other one.  We have been nervous about this trip because we knew we needed to really drive it to learn some things.  Hopefully, we won't learn as much tomorrow.  BOL!  

Scout relaxing on our trip.

Mama moved my bed to the front with her.  I am a happy guy.

Oklahoma scenery

Another view in Oklahoma

Our campground is nice.  They make pizza and chicken wings here.  Mama was happy not to have to fix dinner tonight.

We walked around the campground tonight, but we kept getting stopped by people wanting to meet us.

Scout was a big hit.  I just wanted to explore.  We didn't get to see the entire place because it got dark.

The office, store and restaurant.

The lake?

Not sure this is what it is supposed to look like.  Lots of  red clay here.

Picnic area

Dog run

There is so much to sniff here.

Tomorrow will be another long day of driving.  We will spend the night in Goodland, KS.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Headed To Bed Early Tonight

Leaving Houston Tomorrow

We are leaving Houston tomorrow.  We have been here for four months!  We have accomplished several things.

• We sold our house.
• We bought our new motor home.
• We became Texans. Dad became one this week, so now we are official.
• We bought shades for our motor home.  I am not sure if that one really counts, but Mama says it does.

 We are actually sad to leave Houston this time.  Mama couldn't get out of here fast enough last time, but this time we are staying in a different part of town and Mama likes it.  She loves shopping in Missouri City, TX.  She found a little bitty Mexican drive thru restaurant, Tornado Taco, that she loves.  She only ate there twice, but the last time she had their potato and steak burrito and said it was the best fast food burrito she has ever had.  It had potatoes, steak, pico de gallo and queso.  It sounded good, but we wouldn't know because she ate the whole thing before she got home.

A funny thing happened the other night. Mama ordered a meat lovers pizza with black olives and mushrooms and Quepapas from Pizza Hut.  Quepapas are like tator tots with jalapenos in them.  She ordered online.  She received a phone call from them and she couldn't understand what the man was saying.  He was speaking Spanish. Mama took her first Spanish class that day, but nothing she learned sounded like what he was saying.  BOL!  She thought he was saying no delivery, but she finally figured out he was saying no quepapas today.  She somehow figured out that he was asking her to order something else. She told him the chocolate dessert.  She didn't know for sure what she was going to get.  The delivery driver ended up getting lost.  He finally arrived and Mama was delighted to see the chocolate dessert was correct. She was not happy to see that her pizza ended up just being black olives and mushrooms.  BOL!

Since we are now Texans, this hangs in our home.

Dad has to work very late tonight.  We are not happy about that.  Mama is already putting things away.  Our flag and spinner are stored.  This will be the first time that she has had to store things away in this motor home for a road trip, so she has to figure out where things should go. We don't want things falling all over the place while we are going down the road. Our shades are off the windows and stored.  We plan to leave by 7 a.m. tomorrow, if all goes as planned.  We will spend the night in Oklahoma City at a campground where the manager called us "One Of Those People" when Mama gave her our address.  BOL!  She is referring to the address that people are given when they use the mail service we use. The street address is well known in the camping world because when we give it, people always know we are full-timers.

Oh, we found out our next destination yesterday which means we will only be in Denver for a month.  We hoped to stay longer.  We will give you one hint and that is that it is not Egypt.  BOL!  Yes, Dad was asked if he wanted to go there.  He was able to say no without any issues since he only works in North America.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Ready To Hit The Road