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Catching up with a few
Images from our summer travels.


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We have returned home.
And it feels great. During our summer 2019 trip: Start. 53,431 miles
End. 62,588 milesTotal trip miles. 9,157
We visited several western states, had a great time and have enjoyed sharing many images with our readers
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A special thank you for Mike and Elsa.
Our friends Mike and Elsa invited us to join them at the Bockman Campground. To get there we drove up through the Poudre river canyon and over Cameron Pass, over 10,000 feet in elevation. The Poudre river canyon is very scenic and very crooked.Unfortunately we did not find any pull off in the prettiest areas so we did not get any pictures this trip of the canyon
We were very pleased with all of the beautiful color in the aspen trees on our trip up there. Below are some images which hopefully will give you some idea of how pretty it is.

Aspens in color along one of the mountain ridges.

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Sad to Say
After tomorrow we will be leaving Grand Mesa. We have had a wonderful stay and the camp host and campsite were great. Today was our last trip down to Montrose as we will be heading north when we depart Wednesday morning. The Starbucks in Montrose always got my drink just right.
We were finally able to obtain an image showing a good portion of Grand Mesa during our return trip up the Mesa this afternoon, it is below.

We are somewhat sad about having to leave as the aspen leaves are just beginning to turn golden. We have to be in Boulder, Colorado for a few days before we venture out into another part of this state hoping to find aspens more colorful. Below are a few images we hope you enjoy.

On a lake near our campground.


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Visited the Grand Mesa Visitor Center
A relatively short drive over to the Visitor Center, primarily to use their WiFi. We also wanted to see how the aspen trees are changing. Very slowly but a slight amount of progress.
Below are a couple of images from the deck at the Visitor Center of one of the many lakes on the Mesa.


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Another Visit to Montrose, Colorado
Yesterday we headed down from Grand Mesa once again. Headed back to Montrose for supplies, groceries and of course Starbucks. We were up to get an early start and as it had gotten down into the high 20s we discovered this wonderful sight across from our campsite.

the bushes had frost and the lake
had a nice reflection.
After getting our errands accomplished we stopped by Sweitzer State Park between Montrose and Delta. Very nice park with a lake and playground. We had lunch there and as we were leaving we were able to obtain an image of a portion of Grand Mesa. It is an unbelievably large mesa and our image only shows a portion of it. It is about 11,000 feet in altitude and our location in the park was about 5,500 feet. There are a large number of campgrounds on the mesa and is much cooler there.

a field of probably Olathe sweet corn.
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A different destination
We left our campground on Grand Mesa early this morning to head down to Clifton, Colorado to obtain a Starbucks and other necessary groceries and supplies. As the temperature was very moderate we decided to utilize several of the roadside pullouts to obtain some images to share with our viewers. We did something we usually do not, we took several images of the same view. We hope you enjoy them.

was very close to the town of Clifton, Colorado

and a much longer lens.

drive back to Grand Mesa


into the river gorges which lead us to higher elevation.



The high desert valley is where we had been.
We are about two thirds of the way to our campground.

A beautiful view, would you agree?
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Adventure on Grand Mesa
After breakfast at our campsite we decided to do some exploring. We had passed by the entrance to the Lands End Observatory several times. A sign there indicated it was about 11 miles and appeared to be gravel road.
While we did not make it all the way to the observatory we did make it to what used to be the welcome center. Many of the views along the road made the trip very worthwhile. We hope you will agree.

The sign at the welcome center which appeared to
have been closed for a long time.
There are trails at the center which are along the very edge of Grand Mesa overlooking the valley several thousand feet below. Unbelievable vistas.

to US Highway 50

of many switchbacks.


the Mesa the valley floor is.


near the Visitor Center.
And on our way back to the highway we found one aspen tree which had the golden color we hope to see in abundance in the next week or two.

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Down from Grand Mesa
We departed our campground on Grand Mesa early this morning. We drove down to Delta and Montrose for groceries, supplies and a new 85mm f1.8 lens for my Z cameras. Expeditiously shipped to me by AllensCamera.com. Looking forward to getting some nice images with it during the rest of our trip this summer.
Below are some images from our drive down off Grand Mesa and in Delta.







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