Travel Blog

Now with two days off in a row, Phil and I are able to get out and enjoy ourselves a bit more than we have been used to. Last week after getting our library cards and doing some food shopping, we decided to take some roads less traveled. We took a right out of our RV park and drove past the town of Kelly and onto a back road that leads to my workplace. On the way, we saw this little homestead that we have seen on books and postcards in our stores. I forget the name of the place, which is terrible of me, but hope you will forgive me. We'll make it a contest...name this place:

A coworker had told me I should ride my bike to work on this road, but I'm thinking no. It was up and down and windy, whereas the road I take to work (and yep, I'm actually doing some physical exercise here) is nice and flat and straight. The only problem with my road is it's the main drag and the traffic is kinda heavy all the time, but I wear my little reflective vest my sis gave to me years ago, and I have my brain bowl on my head. Of course, I don't think either will help me much if a buffalo-seeking, RV driving (swerving) tourist hits me, but you can't live in fear, right? (Sorry moms...don't worry too much about me...it's all good.)

After we ended up near my workplace, we decided to take a picture of it before we tried to get our post office box.

It's called the Craig Thomas Discovery Center and it is a relatively new building. It will be three year's old this month. The ugly green skirting you see in the front is where they're in the process of building a big auditorium. That will be cool.

After we were done here, Phil took us on the Moose-Wilson road, which is a little, narrow, gravel road with lots of looky-loos. And they were looking for moose, of course. It was kind of hard to squeeze ourselves by the folks pulled off on either side of the road, but we squeaked by, and there was indeed a moose there. We didn't get any pictures of it, though, because there was no place for us to park, and we refuse to be those folks who just stop in the middle of the road.

When we could pull off, we walked around a little bit in hopes of seeing more moose, but no such luck. I did get bitten by a lot of mosquitoes, however, so we did get to see some wildlife at least.

On the way home from work the other day, the sky got dark and gloomy and we knew we were in for a light show. We got to see some good lightning strikes before the sun came back out, and then we got to see the biggest rainbow we had ever seen. Phil got a picture of a piece of it. I think  we would have needed a very wide-angled lens to get all of it.

The weather is really neat around here. You can see it raining in the distance, but it's crystal clear where you are. Once second it will be a downpour, and you wait two minutes, and it's nice and sunny again. I really like it. We've got to watch some great lightning strikes almost nightly, but it never lasts for long.

And then, on our way to work just the other morning, it finally happened...I got to see a moose close up!

She was walking around our campground. I took lots of pictures, but hardly any of them came out all that great. Figures. But I did snag a couple of good ones, and I've been told the moose will be back in our campground in force in about a month.

That's about it for now. It's our day off today, and we're sitting in the library catching up on internet stuff and getting stocked up on reading materials. It had been so long, I blew through three books in a week! Tomorrow is our get-out-and-do-stuff day, so we're going to try to go white-water rafting for $1. I'll let you know how we make out.