May 4, 2013 Canon City, CO

Since I last posted we have driven across Nebraska and into Colorado. The weather is slowly improving although there are signs of snow everywhere. While it has been wet at home it is extremely dry in southern Colorado. So lots of fire danger worries. We are camping near the Royal Gorge. It is a bridge over the Arkansas River in a 1000 ft. deep gorge. Really neat. They won't let us drive the RV across the bridge much to Beth's relief so we walked it. We also took a cable tram over the gorge and an inclined rail to the bottom of the gorge. We saw some white water rafters and wished we could join them. Next we go to Cripple Creek, CO then on to the Great Sand Dunes National Park south of where we are now. The first picture is what we left in Des Moines