Austin to Central Colorado

Well, where to start?? We finally finished completion of our patio extension and were anxious to take off but still had a couple of very important dates on the calendar. First was July 4th with the kids and grandkids ... plus son Uncle John was coming in to get his first visit with his second nephew (Travis). We had a great time in Dallas, came back to Spicewood, and then went to the Davis Cup tennis match between Spain and the U.S. for 3 days (great matches but we came up on the losing side). The next day (Monday) we picked up the trailer, packed it up and headed out on Tuesday morning. The drought was very evident as we drove up toward Lubbock ... huge live oaks are stressed or dying, the fields were mostly dirt as the grass has completely dried up, farmers didn't even plant because of lack of moisture (the only green was irragated land) ... we've never seen it so bad. Even some of the cedars were brown and dying. We got into Lubbock, got connected, and immediately had a dust storm followed by a rain storm come through. The effect of all this is that is was raining mud! Our clean trailer and truck were converted to a West Texas dark red brown color. Then the next day we went through scattered rain storms in New Mexico on the way to Walsenburg, Colorado. Around Raton Pass we drove through the after effects of the fires in Northern N.M around that area ... unbelievable. Our third day we ended up in a little RV park on the northern side of the San Luis Valley .. very quiet and off the road with internet and phone service. The first day there I started to work on the web site and realized I had not transfered some html files from the old laptop ... no problem, I'd just download them from the server?? Bad mistake .. I hit a wrong command and ended up downloading a bunch of other file info from the server which the notebook did not like at all! Net result ... no computer functionality and my backup was at the house in Spicewood. Luckily we had our iPad so we weren't totally dead ... plus our neighbor saved us by getting my backup external drive and mailing it to us in Gunnison where we picked it up and restored the notebook to it's original condition. It's nice to have it all working again! So I'm not going to try the server download again ... I'm just going to post this on a separate link which will be in my email. It's the first time I've actually hosed up my notebook that I couldn't resolve the issue without resorting to the whole system restore from a backup thing. So the message is the same, backing up your system can save your butt. Anyway, my apologies for the long winded intro ... as usual, we hope you enjoy the site as much as we enjoy sharing our experiences. Even though we have a great time when we are away, we always look forward to coming back to Texas and visiting with friends and family.