Rex and Nancy's Travels - "ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST" - JRR Tolkein

We left Limon late Monday morning for the short drive to Brighton where we visited our friends Terri and Bill. They have a very nice house on 2 ½ acres and they let us park in their driveway.     It was nice to park in a beautiful, quiet place for a couple of days after the long drive from south Texas.   We are very happy to be back in Colorado. We enjoyed visiting with Bill and Terri and helping them put in a new flower bed.   We enjoyed working in their yard but we are glad we don’t have to keep up a large yard any more.   We also got to help celebrate Terri’s birthday at Thai Basil, a great restaurant in Thornton.   Thank you, Terri and Bill, for your friendship and hospitality.

We left Falfurrias Friday morning and headed northwest toward Colorado.     We stopped the first night in Grape Creek just north of San Angelo and spent the night at Grape Creek RV Park.   Saturday we drove to Amarillo and stayed at the AOK RV Park.   Sunday we drove through the panhandle of Oklahoma and into Colorado.   We stopped for the night at the Limon KOA in Limon, Colorado.  

We are enjoying spending time with Jen but, unfortunately, Jeremy is working and will be gone until after we leave. He is an electrical engineer with an oil company and works at a site for 10 days straight and then has 3 days off.    The first couple of days we were busy getting a new tire for the 5 th wheel and ordering a new air condition cover from Camping World.    On Mother’s Day we drove to Corpus Christi and did some more shopping and Jen took us out for a nice lunch.   Monday we drove back to Corpus Christi and spent over 4 hours touring the USS Lexington, a retired aircraft carrier that is now a museum. The 120,000 sq ft flight deck had about 20 vintage aircraft displayed.    We were also able to go into one of the anti-aircraft gun stations.   We toured the super structure and Jen enjoyed the great view of the flight deck from one of the officer’s chairs. We next toured the lower