We moved to Gunnison, CO to the Curecanti National Recreation Area. On the way, the road to the area was under construction…it was fun navigating the rig through this road that was stripped most of the asphalt and down to very skinny lanes, some of which were SUPER close to the mountain-side.
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Curecanti is a nice campground with nice, large sites. The view was stunning! The big drawback is that the campground does not have water at all at the sites…a BIG no for me! Ed didn’t mind staying there, as I flew out the next morning and did not return until time to move to the next campground! LOL!
I was shocked when Ed said he booked my flight home out of Montrose, Colorado. I had no idea that Montrose had an airport large enough for commercial flights! It is the smallest airport I have ever been to and boy do they need to work on their system…their baggage pick up is literally outside in the parking lot!
My flight into Dallas was re-routed to San Antonio due to a big storm and winds that shut down DFW and the surrounding areas. The flight left Montrose at 2:30pm and didn’t get to Dallas until 8:30 pm. We were unable to disembark from the plane, so we were on the plane all that time. The second photo below is me trying to get a photo of the hundreds of monarch butterflies that were migrating! It was awesome. Luckily, I was flying first class, which made it a bit more comfortable to stay on board so long…but there was no food on board and I hadn’t eaten at all that day, as I always try to not eat around a flight. Poor James was picking me up in Dallas and he had to wait around for hours until we finally got there!
While in Dallas, I took James to get his very first tattoo. I wanted to go with him as I wanted to be sure he went to a good, clean and professional place. The artist who did our tattoos is a great guy and really listened to what we wanted. James got a tattered US flag, to represent the trails and challenges he has overcome. I must say, for a first tattoo, James got a large one! He sat like a champ! While there, I got a tattoo of a phoenix that I had been planning for a while. My brother, Steven, had a phoenix on one hand and a dragon on the other. My phoenix is in the watercolor theme that I am using for this arm…so it isn’t the traditional red/orange/yellow version, but I love it! I also got my ‘Michael’ tattoo touched up and the Mickey semicolon pops so better much now!
My favorite part of being in Texas is visiting with Mama. Her dog, Fancy, was super excited to see me…in fact, it wore her out to welcome me home! LOL!
While I was in Dallas, Vickie and her mama were also in Dallas! It was great to see them and be able to visit. James looks like a giant next to Vickie these days…even if you don’t take into account that wild hair of his!
While in Dallas, I was able to visit with my dearest friend, Christy, whom I call ‘Sister’. This is James and her grandson, Stetson. Stetson really loved James and I had to lecture James about how much work babies/children are…as he started to worry me that he was getting baby fever…lol…While I would love to be a grandma, NOT YET!!!
My time in Texas was wonderful, as always. It is so funny to me still to ‘visit’ Texas.
My flight home was uneventful, thankfully and as soon as I got back to Colorado, we moved to the new campground (WITH water!)
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