Happy Travel Tuesday - Holzwarth Historic Site

As Rosy mentioned last week, Mama and Daddy went for the occasional "dog-free" afternoon adventures while we were on vacation.  

Apparently, dogs aren't allowed on the trails of Rocky Mountain National Park. Luckily, our RV park was humungous and Mama and Daddy always wore us out took us for long walks before they left.

 We did over hear them talking about a few of their adventures though....

Today, we are going to share some of the pictures and background of their Holzwarth Historic Site adventure.

John Holzwarth , a German Immigrant, came to Granby in 1917 with his family. 

The Holzwarths made a living doing anything they could. This included lumber milling and even cutting ice from Grand Lake to sell to locals for refrigeration. Eventually though, they opened a lodge

The lodge eventually became the Never Summer Ranch, one of the first "dude ranches". The Ranch was in operation until the mid 1970s when it was absorbed into Rocky Mountain National Park.

Mama and Daddy took a hike out to see some of the original buildings.

The ranch is located in a beautiful valley on the eastern side if Rocky Mountain National Park.

Boy, the scenery is almost as pretty as the view out CeCe's window!

The ranch buildings are nestled in the valley forest

Can you imagine the campfire stories they told back then?

Not all the buildings are open to the public. National Park Rangers call some of them home while stationed at the park.

You can read more about The Holzwarth family and the history of their time in the park HERE 

Here is a short slide show Mama put together:

You can also watch it HERE, on our YouTube channel!

Thanks for joining us on another vacation adventure. 

Next week we'll take a little break from the Rocky Mountains while we let Mama show you some scary balloon pictures and tell you about the Albuquerque Balloon Festival!

  

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Daddy time is the Best Time!!

Mama and Daddy are on their way home from watching scary Balloons at the 

ABQ International Balloon Festival today, it may be tomorrow before we get around to 

visiting.

 

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A Touch of Autumn on Nature Friday

 

 While we were on vacation, we were lucky enough to experience the first signs of Autumn  

 

A pretty dandy-lion skeleton greeted us in Raton Pass.

 

 

 But mostly, the leaves were starting to change colors in Colorado.

 

 

Peaks of yellow were turning up everywhere!

 

 

 During our time there, we were amazed how fast the color spread.

 

 We didn't see many reds or oranges, except in the RV park.

 

 

 Mostly everywhere we turned, the aspens were displaying their autumn golds.

 

 

 Along the highways....

 

 

...and along the rivers we saw the beautiful colors! 

 

We really enjoyed watching the trees going from this....

.....to this!!

 

 

 Autumn is such a beautiful season, we have a little bit of color here at home, but not much.

Are the leaves changing color in your corner of Blogville yet???

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Thankful Thursday

Daddy and Mama took me out for ice cream because I was such a good girl when we were visiting Grand Lake. Now that in itself is something to be thankful for, but there's more.

Usually I will just get a little bit of Daddy's ice cream but this time, thanks to the friendly ice cream girl, I got a little dish of ice cream 

ALL.TO.MYSELF!

I gave it my best try, but couldn't finish all it all....

but I sure am thankful to the ice cream girl for giving it to me!!

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Happy Travel Tuesday - Grand Lake, Co.

Most afternoons during our vacation Mama and Daddy went for a "dog free adventure." Imagine my surprise when one afternoon they decided we should go for an adventure together! Sunny was exhausted from our morning walk but I jumped at the chance to get out and explore.

We took a ride to Grand Lake, Colorado, a small town situated right outside Rocky Mountain National Park. Grand Lake was established in 1881 and originally furnished supplies to surrounding mining settlements.

Today though, with only approximately 500 permanent residents, Grand Lake depends on tourists like me

(or maybe Mama and Daddy since they hold the fleasa card).

We spent some time walking up and down their "Boardwalk" where lots of small shops are located. Mama really liked that there are no "chain" stores or restaurants allowed along the boardwalk.

After some shopping, we made our way over the the town's namesake, Grand Lake!

Grand lake is the largest, deepest natural lake in Colorado. It's also part of the beginnings of the Colorado River. Mostly though, it has beautiful views.

What a wonderful afternoon, filled with pawrents and me time, shopping and lots of exploring.

We all had a such a pawesome time, me exploring and Sunny getting a well deserved nap! Don't worry, Sunny enjoyed a nice pawrents and her walk when we got back to CeCe!

 

 

 

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Aaawww Monday - Happy October!

 

Happy October!!! 

October for us means: 

The Balloon Fiesta - Mama and Daddy are taking CeCe to see the big balloons. We are staying home with Nanny B because we get a little scared "barky" when we see big balloons.

Our First Solar Eclipse- We are heading out for our final CeCe trip of the year to see our first solar eclipse! 

What does October mean for you??

 

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