random pics

jsut some junk iron on a post that came out of some old mine.

look alittle closer :O)

yes its patches ready to take over driving the rv :O)   there was some kids running around the rest stop and they were looking fro a stray cat that they kept hearing lol  turned out to be patches they were hearing. they thought it waqs the coolest thing they ever say, a cat traveling ina rv. 

more pics from colo

sunset behind some of the 14000 ft mountains

this is pikes peak with the same setting sun.

just a bump in the ground :O)  about 1100 ft tall though, dont know how it was formed but it was pretty cool sitting out there on the flat plains all by itself.

just another sunset picture

Pikes Peak again just a few minutes later in the same day as the other picture.

some pics from salida colo

this old car was sitting behind the baseball park in salida, thought it was cool sitting there so I thought I would share it with you all :O)

This was there at the park too, Dont have any idea what age it is but its old.

 might be alittle difficult to use this out house properly lol the little window on the side actually has a piece of glass in it and it opens up.  it is a side by side two holer :O)  so much for privacy. 

just a old adobe house, thought the adobe bricks were kinda cool. saw some Mexicans down by center colo making some old school way. They were stomping straw into the clay and mixing it before they threw in into the box form. Then they would set them out in the sun to dry.  I would have takena pic of it all but was too much traffic.

wondering what to do with the blog

  I got up  a few morning ago and realized that it was time to go home. I was done with this adventure for a few different reason.  I just new when I was looking at the map and couldnt figure out a direction that something was up with me.  I finally decided at 430 pm in buena vista that i was going to head east, not sure where east but east. I drove with the thought that I was going to end up at fair play again but when I got to the intersection for fairplay or colorado springs I went to the right towards colo springs.  Not actually thought process I just turned and headed that way.  I got down the road a ways and it sunk in that I was actually headed home. No real reason except that I had done everything that I said that I was going to do.
  Alittle farther down the road I realized that I had not seen a bear yet!!  I got to thinking about it and decided that I could go to a land fill and see a bear there, granted not the ideal place but I would most likely see a bear.  About that time I saw a flash of something run across the road in front of me and to my amazement :O)  it was a small bear!!!!  and I had just about run over the dang thing.  Then and there I knew in my mind and heart I was headed home for sure.  I drove most all the night and finally stopped just over the kansas line at 3 am.  I had been following a thunder storm all night long, it was really amazing because all night long I was watching lightning out my drivers side window.  It was a huge storm.
 got up the next morning and headed on down the  road towards home, got about 100 miles east and started seeing alot of storm damage, it looked like a tornado had gone through the place. Roofs riped off tin buildings, tree limb down all over the place, you name it strung all over.  Good thing I stopped when I did or I might have been in the middle of it.  
  Stopped at ness city for gas and a cheese burger at the frigid queen.. if you get a chance to stop there do it!  its really good food.   Got back on the road and text my sister and started asking about supper and if she would set a plate for me. She thought I was still in colo and I let her believe it.  I got to her place to only find that she was out riding on the morcycle :O)  so I headed on to my aunt and uncles place, got there and peggy was putting groceries away so I just stood in the door looking at her untill she turned around and saw me.  No one knew I was headed back so it was a surprise to all actually :O)   
  So now I am back home staying at my aunt and uncles place for now and wondering what exactly I am going to do now. and what do I do with the blog. Do I keep it going and turn it into a diary or just let it fade into the past.  I dont know. I have really enjoyed writing on it and yes it is kind of a journal/diary.  so what do you all think?  keep it going or dump it?   

In other news I believe that I am going to buy a hot dog cart adn try that out for  while. Always wanted to do something like that.  See if it is actually something that a person can make some money at it or what.  If it goes good then maybe someday up grade to a concession trailer :O)  not sure what to do actually,  need to do something though.  Money doesnt grow on trees lol 

  anyway, let me know what you all think about the life of the blog.   be safe all    :O)

stock market :O(

  Got online a little while ago and checked the stock market and got the bad news about it going to shit in a hand basket...  Wonder if I have any money left?  last time it down this it was pretty ugly......   Should have cashed it in and buried it in the back yard in a coffee can..   I bet the phone lines are busy to the investment companies.  Want to rant but what good will it do.....
 Sometimes you just have to splurge and have a piece of pie with ice cream to make it all better lol  .......    Didn't help.   :O(           talk later to you all,   going to find a place to perch for a while.    Be safe :O)

more pictures

Just one of the many views that I am forced to look at each and everyday that I have been out here hehe

Nothing really special about this picture, I just thought it was neat with the withered 100 yr plus wood and the steel rods sticking up out of the ground.  Just another old gold mine that didnt pan out for the owner by the looks of it.

alittle better shot of the mountains, this is the view I got everytime I stepped out of the door east of Buena Vista.

another angle

Cricket getting all limbered up to eat breakfast :O)

Some more of the gold that I have found out here :O) 

This is looking north towards salida co from point bar where we we're camped this last week.

a better pic of the gold found at point bar, this was 10 full concentrated buckets of material run through the highbanker.  just another 2,583 bucket to go for out first ounce LOL

pics of Buena Vista and salida area.

I was sitting in the shade in Buena Vista when i caughta glimpse of something running around on the roof of "Jan's Restaurant"  got to looking closer and realized it was a dog. The owner I am assuming, left the window open without the screen on it so the dog could get out of the house lol

This is what the main street of Buena Vista looked like after a rain the one night I decided to go out to a bar lol  it rained so hard that the street was flooded up to the business's doors and it was running inside some of them. It really poured down for a while. Had a really good time there at the "Highway Dept bar"   Cool old building was actually the maintenance shop for the highway dept back in the day.  Dogs are welcome :O) 

Just a shadow picture of Cricket and I and  a old mine shaft that has collapsed in on itself. We camped here for a few days and hiked around to the old mines dotting the mountains there.  Just east of Buena Vista. 

This is just a pic of cricket by a huge rock called Elephant rock, its just after the four train tunnels I have showed earlier in a blog.  and the next one is a full size pic of the same rock. 

This sculpture is in front of a gas station in Poncha springs just west of salida, rather wonderful I think.

And for those of you wondering where all the gold pictures are :O) ,  here is one of them. Will post more after while. Looks like alot untill you put it in a bottle then it shrinks dramatically lol

the view of the moon from camp the other evening.