"Today is a Good Day to Drive!" .....Van-Go

This was our pull off along route 133 where we spent the night just beyond the Somerset coal mine. Along the road we found some interesting sculptures; this was our favorite. Great gardener with his lantern. Wow, that is a lot of wire twisting to make those cactus needles! Today is a good day to drive! Love the little streams and rivers that flow along the roads of Colorado. And those snow capped peaks in the distance! Near Paonia State Park we came across a beat! Well, actually it was at Bear Ranch Resort. Wow, there is water flowing over the dam! Look, look there is water flowing over the spillway! That is Bear Ranch down there. We are heading north to Carbondale. Oh my, they need a sign for falling rock!  Looks like the entire hillside is falling. Now you can see the top of the spillway. The lake becomes a stream as we go. See now it is just a stream. From stream to mountains! Beautiful. Windy twisty road; motorcycles and sports cars must love this. Green, so green. We are in th...

Today is a good day to drive!  We just sat along the road watching 800 pair of cattle drive along the road to their summer pasture.  We started down the road and the van just quit; Will was able to get us off the road a bit so cars could pass. The cowhands were on their way back to the ranch and stopped to see if they could help us. Then a guy trailering his tractor stopped to see if he could help. There was no helping the Roadtrek.  The battery was fully charged, but it just would not start.  Kept giving a little coughing sound-tick, tick, tick.  It was just done.  So, AAA to the rescue. They sent out Kevin from Phill's Towing.  Between Will and Kevin they were able to get the Raodtrek up on the tow bed without scraping the bottom off the back tray. The Roadtrek look so big up on that tow bed! It was about an hour drive to Hotchkiss. And we talked with Brett at Brett's Automotive; he said he would see what he could do.  If nothing today we were w...