It's a traveling day to get there, and it's only a 38-mile trip. We're on Highway 91, driving higher and higher until we reach Freemont Pass at well over 11,000 feet.
When the highway sign warns of 7% grade going downhill for the next four miles, RVers must take notice. That is a steep descent for a long stretch with many curves ahead. We are glad for our diesel engine brake on Colorado highways like this one!
Then we reached I-70, where more towering mountains make for a very scenic drive to our next special destination.
We got the motor home set up in our home for the next 11 days in Lowry Campground. We lucked into the best site in this Forest Service campground when someone cancelled their reservation about the time we were making our plans to be in Colorado for the summer. At the time we made the reservation, the Forest Service wasn't even sure if the state of Colorado would allow public campgrounds to be open this summer. But we're sure glad they opened up in the middle of June!
We are situated on Swan Mountain, right between the towns of Dillon, Silverthorn, Frisco, and Keystone. We didn't realize when we made the reservation that we would have access to all the shopping and food options that these sizable towns offer, plus all the beauty of the mountains that surround us. This is a special campground spot!
This would be a special destination under any circumstances, but it's super special to us because we have guests that are arriving today as well! Our oldest son and his wife planned a family gathering in Colorado. They went to all the work of booking a townhouse for the group, and then verified that we could find a camping place for our motor home as well. So after they drove over ten hours from their home, we got to see Luke and Jordan, and our granddaughter Carter in Colorado!
On top of that, our youngest son and his wife drove 11 hours to also meet us here in Colorado!
On top of that, Jordan's family drove and flew to be here in Colorado too! So we have a very special group of people to spend some special time! We were a group of eleven on the trails this week!
With all these special things going on, we also have special news to share. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A NEW GRANDBABY! We've known about it for quite some time, but we wanted to be sure that Luke and Jordan made the announcement first. In fact, we purposefully didn't use the pictures of Carter wearing her "Big Sis" t-shirt in the blog this spring.
We think she's going to be a great big sister!
Likewise, we didn't mention the miracle we experienced last month during the family zoom meeting for the gender reveal. We were riding up the ATV trail to Goose Lake with our friends, when we pulled over to dry out our shoes from our unfortunate water crossing that morning. That perfectly coincided with the noon hour when the rest of the family could zoom in for a virtual meeting right after Jordan's ultrasound. By some miracle, we suddenly had a good enough phone signal to join the rest of the family to find out we're going to have a grandson! Right after our special zoom meeting, our phone signal vanished for the rest of the day on that mountain. It really was a miracle that we got to participate in the gender reveal that day!
So we are very excited about this special little boy that will be born at the end of October. For now, we are also very excited about being in this special place with some of our favorite people!
Stay tuned for more pictures as we're going to be doing some of the special things we love to do with these special people--like reading books . . .
and taking walks in the forest!
We're glad that we can now share our special news in this special place with these special people!
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