Around the first of July, we got a visit from sister Martha and husband Shelby. We took them for a little high country jeeping over Engineer Pass to Lake City, including an overnight camping trip to Creede, Colorado.
Downtown Creede, Colorado
Strawbale home construction
Silverton 4th of July fireworks
Downtown Durango, Colorado
Local fauna on a hike near our house
Home improvement project after snow & wind destroyed the old one over the winter
100F . . . not good in a valley that normally doesn't need airconditioning
"TORP" logo drawn up for some cruising friends; this is what we boaters are called sometimes by the youngsters
No springtime would be complete without a hike at "Chaco Culture Nat'l Monument"
Silverton's "Hardrocker Holidays Reunion"
Colorado Native Cutthroat
Dining room through the window
Our "Dirt Riot" shelter, mid-August, McElmo Canyon with Sleeping Ute Mtn in the background
Hiking on Molas Pass
Rainbow from our deck
Lightning fire just starting from our deck
2014 Pics of our old Aspen home . . .lots of changes, including two multi-million dollar McMansions built next door since we left.
Aspen City Hall, my 70's & 80's employer
My Aspen Parks & Rec office at the Aspen Golf Club, now one of the top ten municipal golf course in the USA
Mt Sopris - this is where I always thought that I'd like to have my ashes scattered, but it's kinda looking like I should probably plan on taking them up there myself; I originally didn't figure that I'd live this long.
Jeeping Pearl Pass, Aspen to Crested Butte, back home again.
Autumn & Michael's mid-September visit
No, Autumn, there's NO RUNNING at 13,000 foot elevation; our "Colorado born,high altitude children" don't know any better.
Telluride
Mesa Verde National Park
Jeep Wash
Back in Durango with a touch of fall starting
This is how we torture our children in Durango; it's called "mutton busting", but the kids are usually the ones that get busted.
On October 19, 2014, we hooked up "Wet Seasons", our 26ft MacGregor trailerable sailboat, and headed east for Florida using it as our RV camper. We put it up for sale at Indiantown while out in the Bahamas on "Summer Breeze" for the winter.
The first couple of weeks we camped in Caprock State Park and Bastrop State Park in Texas while visiting Brooke in Austin.
Prairie Dog
Sandhill Cranes in West Texas
Walking Stick
On November 9 we arrived at Indiantown Marina and spent the next two weeks cleaning, doing a bottom paint job, celebrating Thanksgiving, and stocking Summer Breeze, before launching and heading east down the St Lucie River on November 25.
Mold covered as usual
When stocking a boat, you have to know your priorities
Heading south on the ICW for Biscayne Bay to await a Gulf Stream crossing window. (Kids, that's "Monticello" in our Fort Lauderdale Rio Vista neighborhood in the background.
Oh, heck NO, we're not going out there; that's why we wait in Miami for a weather window.
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