Lake Powell – September 2017

We left Bluff, Utah on Sat, Sept 9^th, and headed for Page, Arizona. We enjoyed driving through famous Monument Valley where numerous westerns were filmed.

We thoroughly enjoyed our two weeks at Lake Powell and had good weather. I was busy getting new tires put on our boat trailer, having the hydraulic pump to raise and lower our stern drive replaced, and installing a new battery. In spite of these routine repairs, our 14-year old boat is in great shape.

I enjoyed my birthday this year at an Italian restaurant with friends and carrot cake back at our campsite after dinner.

I saw this car one day when we went to Safeway to pick up a few groceries.

We played cards most nights with our friends Kris and Jan from Albuquerque. We have enjoyed meeting Kris and Jan at Lake Powell for the past 9 years, the weekend after Labor Day. We missed my sister Marcia and brother-in-law Mike from Virginia this year at Lake Powell as they had to turn back home after suffering a tire blow-out on their motorhome.    

We are now headed towards San Antonio, Texas to visit Julie’s mom, her sister Cindy, and brother-in-law Terry. Then we head towards Florida, with a few planned stops along the way.

Steve & Julie Cornelius 

Littleton & Fruita, Colorado plus Bluff, Utah

We left Colorado Springs on Tues, August 29^th and “moved” to Chatfield State Park in Littleton.

Wednesday afternoon we enjoyed seeing the Colorado Rockies play the Detroit Tigers at Coors Field. The game ended around 4:30, just in time for our drive home in the commuter traffic on I-25.

We decided to go to one of our favorite places for lunch on Friday, Steuben’s Restaurant, in the Uptown Neighborhood of Denver. We enjoyed their legendary deviled eggs and some sandwiches for lunch.  

After lunch, we toured Margaret (Molly) Brown’s House Museum, in the Capitol Hill Neighborhood. We had never toured the home before and it was historically very interesting for us. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

The last night we were there we went to the Platte River Bar & Grille, on South Santa Fe in Littleton, for dinner. They serve a wide variety of food and I ordered the two sliders entrée off the Happy Hour menu. They were hand-formed cheese burgers and were very good.

We experienced smoke and haze in Denver the whole week we were there, from the wild fires burning out west in Montana, Idaho, Washington and California. You could clearly see the haze as it obstructed our view of the mountains and even the buildings downtown Denver.

We left Chatfield State Park on Wed, Sept 6^th, and drove west through the mountains to Fruita, about 10 miles west of Grand Junction. We spent 3 nights at the James M. Robb-Colorado River State Park-Fruita Section.

While there, we visited the nearby Colorado National Monument for the first time. The 32-square mile area was designated a National Monument in 1911.

We left Fruita this morning, and headed to Bluff, Utah for an overnight stay. We stopped in Moab, Utah for lunch at the Moab Brewery. We were lucky enough to find a place to park along the highway. I especially enjoyed a glass of the locally brewed cream soda and a glass of the root beer with my lunch.    

South of Moab on U.S 191, we stopped to see Wilson Arch. Very impressive and so close to the highway!

We had dinner at Twin Rocks Café, a place we’ve enjoyed several other times we’ve stopped in Bluff.

We head to Page, Arizona tomorrow morning for a 2-week stay at Lake Powell.

Steve & Julie Cornelius