Hello from Dumas, TX

Hello from Dumas, TX

Sunday evening January 15, 2012 (First travelogue of this trip).

Well, it has been a long stretch since I last posted. As I have mentioned many times, most of the posts in this blog detail our travels. We have not traveled much in the past few months.

We did make a short trip to Dillon, CO between Christmas and New Years. We stayed two nights at our daughter Kelly's family's townhouse. They have a wonderful arrangement for their place. It is leased year round by Climax Molybdenum (not sure that is their name today). They house selected employee families there while the employee looks for permanent housing or finishes a temporary assignment. For the last two years, the unit was vacant during the holidays. So, they get to use their great townhouse and still collect rent!

We were surprised at how little snow Dillon had. Last year, they had a huge amount by Christmas. We had planned a lot of activities, but ended up just being lazy and enjoying ourselves.

Now, let's talk about this trip. Pat has a Stampin'Up convention in San Antonio and I have an installation to finish up in the same area. We are traveling in the PT Cruiser. I had hoped to get the Durango engine back in and broken in, but it is taking a lot longer than I had hoped.

We left Denver early this morning and had a pretty uneventful drive – avoiding any bad weather. We drove south on I 25 to Raton, NM and then traveled on US 87 to Dumas. I had forgotten that US 87 is a pretty good road. They are finishing up making it a four lane highway. The construction was not bad and the traffic was very sparse.

We watched the outside temperature climb to almost 70 degrees. With the sun load, we had to run the air conditioner for a while. We arrived at the Hampton Inn mid-afternoon.

We drove just short of 400 miles today and have about 550 miles to go. We will make one more stop before we arrive in San Antonio.

That is all for now.