Author Archives: Gunther

You know how down South the locals will sometimes give you directions that sound something like “Go down to the oak tree and turn left and then take a right at the big rock.”? Well, I can report that they … Continue reading →

Today was supposed to be a rainy sort of day so we headed off after breakfast to our first stop of the day; the Molly Kitchen Gold Mine in nearby (well, 40 miles away nearby) Cripple Creek, Colorado. Our first … Continue reading →

Today we headed off to 0830 Mass then stopped by Denny’s on the way home for brunch. After that we waited a bit until Connie’s tummy issues had settled down a bit then headed off about 10 miles south to … Continue reading →

I can report that as I write this the temp is in the 60s and it’s a pretty nice evening here at the Air Force Academy. About 12 miles away as the crow flies it’s snowing on top of Pikes … Continue reading →

We’ve had an interesting and very busy couple of days…so this post is a bit photo intensive. Sorry about that. Thursday we headed off for our first fun day; we had two stops scheduled for our visiting pleasure. First up … Continue reading →

Today was planned to be a work day…which turned out to be a good thing since Connie didn’t feel good most of the day with tummy issues and it rained on and off from about 1000 on, sometimes pretty heavy. … Continue reading →

I really don’t have much to report since our arrival Sunday and my post yesterday morning with our site picture…but I’ll go ahead and catch you up anyway. The first thing I can report is that there isn’t’ any oxygen … Continue reading →

We got up early Saturday morning, went over and nagged the guys to finish up the final fix on the rig before we left (they moved our internal cell phone booster antenna under warranty and had to patch the hole … Continue reading →

This has turned out to be a pretty busy week. After our arrival here at Camp Horizons in Junction City…we’ve been getting up every day at 0530 so we’ll have coffee, breakfast and be ready for workers by 0700…I gotta … Continue reading →

Monday was an excellent travel day. We got up at 0630, had coffee and a bowl of instant oatmeal, finished up hitching the rig and hit the road by about 0800. Ardmore, OK was reached a mere 392.6 miles later … Continue reading →