Little Trip Out West – Jan 2021

Well, I haven’t posted in some time. We settled in Fort Myers in late October 2020 at Cypress Woods RV Resort. Absolutely stunning park and you can’t beat south FL in the winter. Covid stinks by the way! But, we decided we could stay there and hunker down until summer 2021. We spent some time in January scouting places that we want to go in the summer this year.

So, Jeff and I spent some time in New Mexico and Colorado in January to decide where we want to stay summer 2021. We decided to make it not only a scouting trip, but a mini vacay! In Taos, NM I got to see enough snow that I could actually snowmobile in! FIRST TIME EVER! The only thing that got cold was my right thumb and I seriously thought I was going to lose it! I thought when we got down the mountain that I would take my glove off and it would be purple or black, but it wasn’t. Jeff was on the snowmobile behind me, so I couldn’t ask him. He said he knew something was up because every time we stopped I was putting my glove on the motor. Anyway, I kept my thumb and we both kept all important appendages. He surprised me and rented a home in the Earthship Biotecture Community in Taos, NM for a couple of nights. (Earthshipbiotecture.com) I love his surprises!! We passed the community in 2018 and we have researched them several times since and I have mentioned that I would love to stay in one of those homes. It was almost dark when we were pulling up and I had no clue that we were staying there until he pulled in and got out at one of these funky homes. Great experience. Check out the pics. These homes are made out of 100% recycled material. The water is recycled four times through the home. The amazing thing about these homes is they are several miles from anything and there’s solar electricity and the water is drawn from a rain water collection system on the top of the home and that’s what’s used in the home. There was no “noise”. Total silence is something I haven’t heard in forever. If you ever feel the need to go get refreshed, check these homes out. We also did the tour at the main facility which was interesting. The homes are built so that you can grow food inside, which is really cool. Our home had some really pretty plants, but no food.
After Taos, we moved on to Colorado. We visited Breckenridge, Durango, Creed, Southfork, Ouray, Montrose, Pagosa Springs, Denver and lots of other little towns in between. It was a great trip and we got to meet up with friends from 2018 when we worked in Ouray. We were going to ski in Breckenridge, CO, but I thought it best that we keep our hips and ankles for the rest of the year, so we “watched” the skiers who were doing a fine job. Ouray had some excellent ice climbing action that we enjoyed watching and having conversation about how we could never attempt it. Durango is a quaint town that I want to spend more time in when we go back. But, overall that’s the essence of our trip. Enjoy the pics!!!