So we arrived here in Mancos CO area on the 23d, and the next day we took it easy and hung around, and on the 25th we got up and went into the local community to grab some geocaches, do some laundry, and buy some groceries. When we got back however, the Clampetts had moved in. (a reference to the Beverly Hillbillies, look it up.)… Read moreA new home in the San Juan National Forest
Well the honeymoon didn’t last too long. 🙁 We went out this morning to do some sightseeing and when we got back the fucking Clampetts had moved in. Oh my goodness were we pissed. We’re in the San Juan National Forest, a small track of only like 1.8 million fucking acres, and the Clampetts parked their run down motor-home 20′ from my front door. In… Read moreNew Neighbors
We were up and back on the road this morning by 9 and enjoyed a nice drive towards Colorado. The road still sucked, it is old and cracked and broken, but it sucked less today than it did yesterday. On the way towards Cortez, CO, we stopped at the 4 Corners monument but of course like everything else on the tribal lands in the area,… Read moreColorado!
So this was a bad start to an otherwise lovely morning…. about 9am a Forest Service fire truck drove through and told us they were going to fire danger Stage-3 and were going to close the entire Kaibab National Forest!WHAT?!?!?!? Yup, you can read about it here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/kaibab/alerts-notices/?aid=66669But the bottom line is everyone had to leave the forest because of extreme fire danger. Tira and… Read moreKicked out of the National Forest
