Elephant Butte & Truth & Consequences, NM

We are having a great time in Elephant Butte and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. We toured the Elephant Butte State Park and Truth & Consequences yesterday and had lunch at a pub/restaurant overlooking the lake. There were dozens of houseboats, motor boats, parasailers, fishermen, ATVs in the 33 mile long state park. You can easily see that this is a busy place in the summer as there are boat and rv storage everywhere. It is said that the towns doubles in the summer.
Today we visited Chloride, as old silver mining town. The silver is not so profitable now so they have discovered a white substance in the soil that is used in kitty litter. There are only 10 year around residents in Chloride and some rancher in the area.

Terry Bison Ranch & R.V. Park, Cheyanne, Wyoming

We found this great ranch just outside Cheyanne that has everything. There is a small town atmosphere with small children's fair, train trips around the farm, gift shop, pub, restaurant,bison, camels, horses, etc. Alot of the things are closed for the season but they have activities going all summer and it should be a fun time then. They sell bison meat at the store. It was abit expensive but well worth it.

Conestoga Campgrounds, White Sulphur Springs, Montana

We traveled to White Sulphur Springs, Montana for our first day across the border. It was a good campsite but right out in the open and windy. We woke to chilling temperatures and got under way.

Visit with granbson

I took two weeks off from Manning at the end of August to fly to Ottawa to visit with our daughter and son and family. Gramma put our grandson, Sam through training at gramma camp. We visited Gordon (from Thomas the train), spent time at all his favorite place. I had a great visit and I was able to help our youngest daughter get her condo ready to sell. She sold it to the second people that looks at it and that was good as she had already purchased a house.

Sam (4 yrs) helped gramma get around Ottawa whenever we got lost. He would say turn here gramma.

Tanya and I also drove to Barrie, Ontario to visit my mom for her 89 birthday. We had a good visit and found her in good spirits.

September - October, 2009

We spent time with Herb & Maureen, Denis's brother and family in Quesnel catching up with everyone. Thanksgiving was great, we eat thanksgiving dinner at friends and then another at our daughter and family in Williams Lake. We bought a different vehicle that we can tow behind the motorhome and Denis (and I) are happy to be rid of the dolly.
We spend time with Denis's cousin in Cranbrook and they are traveling down in January and we plan to meet up with them in Quartzite. From there we spent time in Castlegar with our other son (hockey player that stayed with us about 20 some ago. We hadn't seen him for two years and enjoyed his wife and 2 children. He gave us some Elk and Deer meat that we had to bring across the border. After that visit we traveled to Calgary to visit Denis' sister and brother. When we were leaving we discovered that we had some trouble with the motorhome so were delayed until Denis fixed it. We made it to Milk River, Alberta last night (halloween) and crossed the border (without any trouble)at Sweetgrass, Montana to arrive at White Sulphur Springs today. We encountered some snow passing through the Lewis and Clark National Forest but we were 7000 ft up so what would you expect this time of year.