Volume 10 , Issue 15

Traveling Back To SW Colorado

The way things are starting out this week, weatherwise, I was accused of bringing cold weather from the Colorado Rockies. So... that's why this NW Okie headed back to SW Colorado Thursday of this week. My itchy eyes and panting pugsters (Pugs) will be thankful for that move.

While most of Oklahoma was under thunderstorm and tornado watches, we made our trek Westward through the panhandle, Kansas to SW Colorado by way of hwy 160. Click HERE for OkieLegacy (YouTube.com) movie file of the trip through LaVeta Pass, Colorado along hwy 160.

It took us about 12 hours driving time from around 7:15, thursday morning, driving through fog and rain through the Oklahoma panhandle and southwestern Kansas, following hwy 160 to Springfield, Colorado, which we reached around noon, Thursday, as we took a much needed break for lunch and other pit stops. Boy! Was it windy and chilly!

After the Springfield, Colorado break we headed West along hwy 160 towards Trinidad and caught up to some windy, blowing fine snow that followed us up I25 to the Walsenberg, Colorado exit to connect to hwy 160 that runs through the LaVeta Pass area, Fort Garland and other little communities located and placed twenty-some miles apart.

By the time we reached a few miles East of Alamosa, Colorado the clouds had parted and the sun was beginning to shine and followed us all the way towards Del Norte, Monte Vista, South Fork and up through Wolf Creek Pass to the other side of the rocky divide to Pagosa Springs and onto Bayfield, Colorado. We finally turned into our driveway around 6:30 PM, Thursday evening, MDT, before dark over took the daylight hours.

These long one day trips can be hard on the backside and tiring. The next couple of days this NW Okie didn't even want to see the inside of a vehicle and tended to be a bit lazy as she rested up from the trip back to Colorado.

It was a bit chilly here the last couple of days, but the weather says we are in for a warming trend next week when the high front settles in this area. I already miss watching my horses trotting in the pasture and coming to the edge of the fence in the early mornings hours to see if we are up and preparing to feed them.

BUT... I hear that we did bring some much needed moisture to the state on Wednesday through Friday. We didn't mean to bring so much flooding and tornado warning, though, to those parts in the southern, central and eastern parts of the state. Sorry about that.
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