Life on the Road with June and Dave

We are currently in Bennett, CO at a Harvest Host farm.

We had a great time at the High Dessert Hang Out with the group RV Miles. Lots of discussions, viewing of others rigs, shared meals, shared interests. The time went very quickly.

We then headed to Buzzards Belly General Story in Cisco, UT. Cisco, UT is a “ghost town”. It was a thriving town initially due to the railroad, cattle and sheep. It was then oil and natural gas. They then built Highway 70 and the traffic and town dried up. The town never had a water system. The general store has a composting toilet, as they have no running water. There are still two families that live in the town, though you wouldn’t know it looking from the street. The lady who owns the general store lives in Grand Junction and has a camper behind the store where they stay most nights. She always wanted to have a little store. They lived in Arizona and would go by Cisco whenever they visited family in Colorado. So she decided to track down the owner of the property (the store was closed) and buy the store. She said the largest part of her business is rafters, as the road where the rafters are picked up passes right by the store. It was a fun store with a variety of products (food, snacks, antiques, basic necessities). The other thing we got to see at this HH is burrowing owls. They take over abandoned prairie dog holes.

General Store

Silly statues outside general store

Abandoned town and odd things around it

Old post office with real current mailboxes out front

Wonder what that did back in the day

Boxing dummy posing as a fireman

Burrowing owls

Our next stop was supposed to be a Harvest Host halfway between Cisco and Scott City, KS. To get there you had to go through part of the Rockies, an 8,000 & 10,000 foot pass. The owner’s husband asked where we were going next and when I told him, he said there was to be a storm and we wouldn’t want to travel there the next day. So….plan B took us to Grand Junction, CO where we were able to get a campground for 2 nights, which turned into 3 nights still due to the storm.

We enjoyed a 4 miles walk along the Colorado River on The River Trail. One interesting fact about this trail is part of the section we walked used to be a landfill and salvage yard. People saw the damage it was doing to the river and worked to reverse it and make it part of the linear park.

When we checked the first day we were going to leave they said chains were required to travel on Highway 70. Not doing that with the camper. The big benefit to getting “stuck” there another day is the weather was really nice and we got to do a 5 mile hike in Colorado Monument. After all the up and down weather we have had it was so nice to be out hiking on a beautiful day.

Cactus in bloom

rock formation looked like a cozy chair to me

Froggle Rock (LOL)

Funny how all green but his head

Polination

Wind and rain make art

As we hiked we saw this formation gradually appear. At first we only saw the top then as we continued we ended up at the bottom of it. Fun to watch it “grow”

Today, May 8th, the weather was finally conducive to us going through the Rockies. It was beautiful scenery.

We are at a HH farm tonight that rescues animals with the help of the 4H in the nearby town. They have chickens, alpacas, emus, goats, pigs and some cattle. They are sponsored and cared for by members of the 4H, but the farm has the property to house them. They also raise their own cattle, Wagyu cattle. They are different than angus meat in the way that they marble and their tenderness.