Headed Home

October 10 and 11 As the first two days of our trip were driving across TX so were the last. We tried to go to Palo Duro Canyons State Park but denied access because we hadn’t made reservations on the web and there were too many in the park when we got there.  We got home at 8pm on Sunday tired from the drive. 

Just to recap our F U COVID Tour included:

STATES: 

Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas Panhandle.

National Parks:
Bad Lands, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Black Canyon 

Others:
Durango, CO
Silverton, CO
Great Falls MT
Sturgis MT
Mount Rushmore
Devil's Tower
Million Dollar Highway from Silverton, CO to Ouray, CO

About 4k miles in 12 days.
October, 1- 12, 2020

Before we left, our main contractor died, we had a tenant abandon one of our houses, and had a major plumbing leak in another rental. We had to wire money to a new contractor who wasn’t used to working with used to working with us and required 50% up front before he would start. Amazingly enough, we did this driving down the road with the WIFI in the car!!!

With all of this, it was a truly wonderful trip.
The Strater Hotel

Randy enjoying the scenery


Beautiful Hotel

Didn’t expect to see this!


A latte for me

Windmills on the way to Ft Worth


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