Vagabond Tales-This Day Warrants Several Titles*What a Difference Two Hours Make…or *Boy, Did the Wind Ever Catch Up With Us…or *Welcome to the Dust Bowl

March 14, 2024. The End of the Line RV Park Site 24

Last night’s blood moon from our phone camera and one from a live feed, on line.

As in most fairy tales, today, every thing was great…until it wasn’t. We knew there were wind advisories out for this region. This morning it was very calm, and a pretty day, so we decided to go to our newest national park, which was only a short distance away. How did we even hear about this new park you might ask?

This is the press release Harry saw in his news feed put out by President Biden and the park service. This simple press release put Grenada, Colorado on Harry’s radar. As he worked out our itinerary, he knew we needed to see this.

^ The bottom photo in the picture above is of the water reservoir for 7,194 people of Japanese descent held in the containment camp, Amachi in Grenada, Colorado during WW II . There were 9 of these containment camps throughout the US. The tower is one of 7, eight sided guard towers they had around the perimeter. This one has been reconstructed.

There was a very nice audio program we downloaded and listened to as we drove, so we learned many interesting Amache facts from actual people who shared about their time of containment. We spent about 90 minutes exploring and headed downtown to visit the museum. It was located in an old bank building and filled with Japanese arts and crafts and a few war memorabilia . We didn’t spend too much time there. However, before we left, we did find out, there had been a lot of confusion about the National Park Status from many people coming through since January. I guess, we weren’t the only ones.

Stepping out of the museum we realized the atmosphere had change. This was not the happy fairy tale anymore…but the wicked wind, who swirled around us, pushed us into the truck, followed us into the campground and shoved us with fierce force into the the camper to find Finn curled up into an exceptionally small ball and the camper rocking and rolling!

We arrived back from our excursion at 1:00 and we did not open the door again until 8 o’clock, when poor Finn had to relieve himself. But this is what the door looked like before they went through it. The wind didn’t really die down until 11:00 pm. We were so thankful for His watch-care!

We made the decision to leave, as soon as we could in the morning. The dust bowl had run us out of Dodge…Or rather, Grenada.

I’m writing now from Boiling Spring State Park in Oklahoma. It was a planned stop and we simply arrived early! Luckily there was still a site for us with full hook-ups. Phone service is sketchy and we are sitting right in front of the visitor center to hop on their Wi-Fi. To send this out.

Tomorrow, we have cleaning and rest on our list! ❤️