Drive from Palisade Colorado to Denver 10.20.21 Last Day in the RV

 So we got up to an icy morning in Palisade. There was a heavy frost on the grass and everything else. We had a super cold night in the RV. The heater system had died yesterday and we couldn\"t get it to work. Martha got up early in the am and tried it and THANKFULLY we got some heat going. We had breakfast and headed out to Denver. Saw some more beautiful mountains along the way. Snow-capped beautiful mountains. It was an elevation of near 11,000 feet as we passed Aspen/Breckenridge area. Finally we made it to the Denver area and out past the airport to our camp for the last night in the RV.

This little deer was eyeing our camp. He was a  little too nervous to join us and moved onto his regular spot for the night.

A beautiful sunset tonight

Cheers to a good day on the road. America is such a great, and amazing country wouldn\"t you agree!

Near Vail Colorado

Up, Up we go elevation near 10,000 feet

The RV has performed well on this 6 week trip. We named it "Moby Dick" as it is so big and heavy. But the big V-10 motor carried us over 6,000 miles without a hitch. This has been so amazing to see our Country out west and take in all these incredible sights. Everyone should get out here at least once. This is definitely not my last trip out here. Happy Trails!

Rifle Colorado area Monday 10.18.21

We woke up at the winery to a beautiful sunrise in Palisade Colorado. Decided to head out, and quickly got to the Rifle Colorado area. It was way too early to go to our Campground at KOA which is 15 minutes away in Silt Colorado, so Martha located a hike in Rifle which sounded nice. We found it and parked at a Mormon church parking lot. The hike was very nice and a welcome stretch, about 1.5 miles. The trees are so beautiful here right now. We then found a gorgeous state park called Rifle Falls state park it was AWESOME! The waterfall was really cool as you can see. 

Afterwards, we headed over to our campsite. But before we left there Martha rustled up an amazing lunch consisting of Russ’ favorite, a BLT!  And the campsite is FABULOUS! Right on the "little River" which feeds into the Colorado.

Sauvage Spectrum Winery Palisade Colorado 10.17.21

Sauvage:

An aggressive, alpha-dog, power move or action combined with a high level of sophistication, finesse, and swagger.

well that’s the definition of the name, but the Sauvage winery certainly has a couple wines that we feel are deserving of the title “sophisticated” and they have “finessed” the grapes into a beautiful Vino! We did a flight of the Whites, as well as the Reds. Settled on a bottle of the Sauvage spectrum red, and one of the Grunerveltliner white (Russ’ fav) and retired to our RV for a nice cool evening at this Harvest Hosts winery. Tomorrow we are in Glenwood Springs Colorado moving closer, and closer to the end of our awesome trip to the West!

Arches NP Last Day and Petroglyph's

The Arches National Park was a NO GO today as thousands of visitors crowded into the park. So we tried several times to get in and decided we'd have to see it again at a later date. We did however go for an amazing drive out Hiway 279  along the Colorado river. And it was epic indeed. We saw lot's of folks rock climbing and best of all we got to see the ancient petroglyph's (Drawings done by ancient peoples in the area). AMAZING! 

Russ pointing to the Petroglyphs

Rock climbers were all over the area today.

The rock walls are really sheer along this road, going almost perfectly straight up in many areas

All in all it was a really fun and educational morning drive along the 279 near Moab.

The weather today was again a perfect high of around 60 degrees. For more info on the potash road petroglyphs:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-diamond-moabs-potash-road-180460408/