Author: Steve

A quick walk around the campground and we got magpie, house finch, house
wren, bushtits, flicker, yellow rumped warbler, and Osprey. North again.
We didn’t go over the high scary passes, Coal Bank, Molas, and Red Mountain.
Cortez to Dolores, Stoner, and Ricoh. Over Lizardhead Pass, only 10,000
feet high. Full fall colors. Right turn at Placerville, over Dallas Divide, 9,000 feet, Ridgway, and
lunch at the state park. For lunch we got starlings, magpies, pine siskin,
yellow rumped, mountain bluebirds, and eastern bluebirds. Montrose, Olathe,
Delta, Hotchkiss, Paonia, Bowie, Somerset. Over McClure Pass, 8,700 feet.
Down past the turn to Marble, through Redstone, Carbondale, and Glenwood
Springs. We’re back in the Roaring Fork Valley again, staying at a
different place this time. The Campground at the No Name exit. They
changed it. It used to be tight and tiny. They opened it up. Now we get a
large open site with fifty amp full hookups, and a view of the sky for the
satellite dish.

The leveling system on this thing is amazing. No jacks, just the suspension
airbags. We parked on the boat ramp parking lot. Not very level. Punch the button and wait. Voila!

North from Bosque, through Socorro and Albuquerque. West through Grants,
and Gallup. North again through Shiprock and back into Colorado to Cortez.
Our friends at the Cortez KOA, happy to hear we got the Beaver and anxious
for the tour. A quick look at the pond next door produced mallards,
canadas, coots, pied billed grebes, kingfisher, northern flicker, a big
flock of red winged blackbirds, and a bigger flock of yellow headed
blackbirds.