We left Chatfield State Park yesterday. We liked the park because we had privacy at our site. There was really only one trail that was easy for us to get to and we walked it every day. It went by the log cabin.
Hot air balloons preparing to take off. Picture was taken from inside our motor home
We packed up and left yesterday and headed to our final destination in Denver. It was a short trip. We are back at Cherry Creek State Park. This is the park that has the beach. We like the walking area better here because of the beach, but there is not quite as much privacy. The sites are large, but not as many trees to hide us. There are trees here, but they do not have their leaves yet. The trees at Chatfield are mainly cedar trees and pine trees. This park is located in town and close to Dad's work. Chatfield is about 30 miles from Dad's work and it is not as close to town.
There are signs up all over the campground saying that the electric would be turned off from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. today. We decided to head out for a walk since it might be boring at home. We went to the beach.
Scout relaxes at the beach.
I am on full alert and wanting to move.
Scout prefers to lay in the sand.
We let Scout rest forever and it was boring! We would start walking and Scout would flop down on the sand. Mama said we needed to let her enjoy it because she is not going to be happy in Dallas. She is already having a fit if it gets over 70 degrees here. Mama says it is hard having two hounds who are so opposite when it comes to walking. She said it would be nice if we were the same, but if she had a choice, she would choose two Scouts over two Joeys. She said she couldn't handle two Joeys. Can you believe that? I'm fun! Scout is like a sloth.
The electric is still on. Does that mean they are not turning it off? We hope if they do it, they do it soon. It is going to be near 80 today and that will make it hot inside without air conditioning.
Joey,
The Greyhound Who Wishes His Sister Didn't Fuss On Walks
What does five months, five days mean? That is how long we were on the road in 2012 when we went home for what we thought we would be the entire winter, but turned out to be just six weeks. We have now hit the five months, five days mark on this trip! It really doesn't seem like we have been on the road for that long. How long will we will be on the road? We have no idea. We have learned that our life can change quickly. We have no plans of leaving this life anytime soon though.
Remember the log cabin that we found here? Well, we did a little research on it.
The cabin was built in 1856. It is one of the oldest buildings in Denver. It was moved here a few years ago. We were disappointed to hear that as we liked to imagine the original owners walking the same grounds as us. There are spring bulbs that are scattered around it and we wondered how long ago someone lived in it. The cabin is open to the visitors for tours about once a month in the summer according to the article we found. We really enjoyed walking to the cabin each day and sniffing around.
Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Happy To Be Living On The Road
Yesterday, Mama washed our ID collars. They were looking pretty bad. Scout's white lettering looked tan. We hung them outside to dry. You know what that means? We were NAKED! We would have put "Naked Day" in our title, but decided we might get some strange responses from spammers. We are still getting spam from our title "Here We Come" that we wrote last year. What? We might get spam for just putting it in our post? I guess we will see. We only accept comments from registered readers now, so it should be okay.
I'm naked!
It is relaxing to be naked.
Help! I'm not only naked...I'm headless. BOL!
This morning, we were given a "bath" with wipes. That probably should have been done when we had our collars off. Mama is going to wash our sheets today. She really is doing these things in the wrong order. BOL!
We had a pretty sunrise this morning.
We are moving to a new campground on Sunday. Our time in Denver is winding down. We would have liked it more if we hadn't received 20" of snow this month. The average amount of snow for April is 9". I guess we got lucky. BOL!
Yesterday, we took a very long walk so that we could see the prairie dogs. Dad was right, prairie dogs are more interesting than bunnies. We were amazed by the noises they made. We also loved sniffing around their homes. We didn't get any actual pictures of them since they were pretty far away and our camera is not that good. We did take a video and you can hear them.
Our video...it is not very exciting.
Here we are listening. We really wanted to go in the field and visit them.
This is the field where the prairie dogs live.
On our way home, we passed some geese. We have been careful to stay clear of them.
Can you see our motor home?
There's our home!
The snow is gone today. It took it longer to disappear than expected since it was still snowing until about 11 a.m. on Tuesday. We were able to hook up to water for the day yesterday, but we disconnected last night. Today, we are hooked up again and it looks like we can stay that way for the remainder of our stay here. Life has returned to normal for us.
Now that the weather is nice again, we are taking long walks. We usually take two one hour walks each day. I think we could go longer, but Scout just isn't up for it. Mama was a little nervous that we went too far today, but we made it back okay. We met some people on the trail and Scout was able to rest up before we continued on. Scout has always been one that wears out fast, but since she is almost a senior, Mama doesn't want to push her too far.
The campground is sold out again for this weekend. People will probably start arriving today. We kind of like the excitement of having other people around, but it is also nice to have the place to ourselves.
Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Happy That The Snow Is Gone
