June 30: Goodbye to Blue Mesa Recreational Ranch (Western Horizon Resort)

Our week at Blue Mesa was full of activities. Gary did a lot of fishing with his new Colorado fishing license, (but never caught any keepers!)

. After our activities each day, we enjoyed the new outdoor pool and hottub

(adults only, much quieter and less stink of chlorine than the indoor pool). They did a great job on this new pool area, which was landscaped very nicely with trees and columbines. For entertainment (besides pool games enjoyed in the clubhouse), we had regular visits from a mountain weasel who would walk right up to us in the hottub. Our neighbors were from Arvada, CO near Loveland and we enjoyed chatting with them. The RV park was a nice place to stay (except for the sewer connection - which on all sites was way back at the end of the site and required a 30-foot sewer hose!). If we come here again, will stay for free with our new ROD membership.

We usually had a nice sunset also!

Wanderers and Vagabonds...

The RV started as a temporary solution to afford living in Newport Beach when Mary's company relocated to Irvine, CA. We loved it so much, we decided to make a go of full-time RVing. In July 2008 we hit the road, and have been roaming ever since. We do seasonal work camping and really enjoy it. We also use camp club memberships such as Thousand Trails and Coast to Coast to save on "rent". We have found beauty everywhere we go and hope to continue exploring and enjoying this beautiful country. Here's a great quote which sums up our hope for ourselves and for anyone seeking similar adventures:

“...May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.” - Edward Abbey

the.arys - gary and mary

June 30: Goodbye to Blue Mesa Recreational Ranch (Western Horizon Resort)

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