Opening Weekend!

We are officially open at Jellystone Campground of Estes Park!  The weather is cooperating (in that it's not currently snowing)!  A little on the cool side still, but that is to be expected.  We look forward to a fun summer with all our workamping buddies!

Happy May Day

May 1st in the Rocky Mountains (this year) is very snowy! About 10 inches overnight and we're supposed to have snow all day and all night! Who knows what it will look like tomorrow! The campground opens in nine days! (No outside work will be accomplished today!)

Spring 2013

So much for keeping everyone up to date on our travels! It's April and we are already at Jellystone Campground in Estes Park, Colorado for our summer job. I will post some pictures of the snowfall that started yesterday and is continuing today! We had another gate guard job in South Texas until March 8th, when we left and headed to San Angelo to visit with my sisters and their families and celebrate my birthday. I had a great time and was really happy to see everyone! We then headed to Las Cruces to meet my parents and join the RV club for a couple of days. Then it was off to Alamogordo to visit more family and friends. We went to White Sands, Inn of the Mountain Gods outside Ruidoso, Cloudcroft, and got to see everyone I wanted to see. Even had a Sunday afternoon get-together with high school friends that I hadn't seen in decades! We spent almost a month in Albuquerque waiting for the weather to clear long enough in Colorado for us to head up and start work. We finally just left and headed north. We arrived at Jellystone on Friday the 18th and had two beautiful days of weather before the snowfall started yesterday. We're off today because there's too much snow to do much of anything and we are supposed to have great weather the rest of the week! It's great to be back up here and to see friends and start back to work. Hope everyone is doing well!

Happy 2013!

2013 has found us in Texas working as gatekeepers at oil rig sites. Our first stint was five weeks long and we learned a lot about the oil business (not nearly enough). We had to leave the site to make a quick trip to Albuquerque for a doctor's appointment and to visit my parents (and pick up all our mail)! We left our motorhome in Texas at a Corps of Engineers campground at Canyon Lake. I'm attaching a couple of photos of the lake. This afternoon it is 72 degrees, slight wind, and the lake is beautiful. There were more campers over the weekend, but they've left and we're one of only four campers on our entire loop.

We will contact the office we work out of tomorrow morning to let them know we're back in the area and are ready to work. We enjoyed a brief respite from the gate keeping duties and all the noise of the oil business (and the freeway noise and trains). Now we're ready to go back and earn some more money. Hope this finds everyone healthy and happy in the New Year!