July 26 thru August 2, 2013
We are going to try to update our blog for the last few months. After leaving Maine, we left back to New York and stayed in Corinth, NY for a couple of days. Nice Thousand Trails park and we had a great site by the lake. We continued our journey to Gasport, NY to Hartland RV Park. This was a very nice small park near Niagara Falls. While here we took advantage of touring as much as we could. We Loved Niagara Falls, both U.S. and Canadian sides. We visited Olcott Beach Lighthouse, Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Maid of the Mist, Cave of the Winds, the Aquarium, Whirlpool Park, Terrapin Point and the area. We loved the time here and the weather was great.
August 2 thru August 5, 2013
We decided that we would start heading to Colorado to see our kids and family for a month or so. We stayed 1 night in Marengo, Ohio at Cardinal Center RV Park.
Then 1 night in Effingham, Illinois at Camp Lakewood Campground.
Onto Oakgrove, Missouri where we had our oil changed on the rig.
We wanted to visit our friends Vicki and Steve Raine in Topeka Kansas so we stayed a couple of nights at Deer Creek Valley RV Park which was very nice. Steve and Vicki took us touring the town and all went to eat. We had to top the day off with DQ.
August 6 thru August 15, 2013
We arrived in Colorado and enjoyed our short stay in Falcon, Colorado.
We were able to see some family and friends. Kallie had dinner for all of us and Krysta, Candace and Lexi came to see us.
We were able to keep Lil Derick and Tristan and took them bike riding. What a great time with these boys. While at the park, I ran into an acquaintance, Bernadette Harbert.
We were able to go to a Mason family picnic at the park and saw Johns Uncles and Aunts, to include his sisters, Nadine and Carol.
We also had the pleasure of visiting with Evelyn, Elijah, Josie and Claude before we received a shocking call that our nephew, Eloy passed away.
We had to leave and left to San Francisco for three weeks.
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August 17 thru September 1, 2013
Arrived in California and stayed in Pacifica, Ca. at San Francisco RV Resort. This was right on the ocean, however, this was not a Resort. Our sister Janie arrived the same day we did from Greeley, Co. We were very glad we were there for Eloy and the family. Eloy Cliffords service was very nice indian tribal of sort. A young indian danced and sang for the ceremony. There were so many folks there and we met many plus some nieces and nephews.
While there we went to Santa Cruz boardwalk; SF mission area; Chinese Gardens; Traveled the ocean coast highway; Montara Lighthouse; Pigeon Forge Lighthouse; San Clemente Lighthouse. Ate a lot as well!!
I also lost my phone while cruising, so I was lost for a few days.
Abilene, Texas - Our visit with Bill, Lorilee and the girls was great and we stayed three weeks. We stayed at Abilene State Park, where Lorilee works, so we saw her daily. We went for walks, hiking, bird watching and rode our bikes, which was overdue. We saw so many animals but our favorite was a little armadillo, we named him Arnold (Arnie). 
We spent time with the family having dinner (s), going to the movies, church functions, going to the balloon festival and just enjoying each others company. We surprised Paige at her job and took pictures of her as a cosmetologist. The man she was cutting hair was really complimenting her which of course made us proud grandparents.
