Chit Chat 6

[Frantic Freddie]

Heck, at any given time during the summer there's fires all over the western US (sometimes Florida too), there's fires in 10 states right now.

Not so cool story:

We own, along with the wife's brother & sister, 10 acres in the foothills of the Manzano Mountains. We'd camp there on holiday weekeds, I'd take a big canopy, lots of food & drink, we'd have friends come down & camp. It was heavily wooded, huge Ponderosa pines, alligator bark cedars, piٌon.
Then in 2008 it burned It'll be 20 years before it all grows back. Probably longer,since Poderosas live a long time. My nephew cut one down (not even a big one) & we guessed it was about 60 years old.

[Yvonne]

Ouch!!! I can imagine the woman's reaction
Not good that there is always a part on fire there....me thinks me is not going there because me is probably ending up in the on fire part somehow

[Frantic Freddie]

It's a beautiful place But, contrary to what Wiki says, you can have motorized vehicles (after all, we drove there) in the Gila, they just have to stay on the roads & trails. You also don't need a permit in the established campgrounds, you just have to pay the fees ($5 a night where we were at).

Here's a funny story about the time we were there 20 years ago:

We were on a week-long trip around the Gila & while I'd never been to Snow Lake, she had, so we headed there. Got there about 1-2 pm, set up camp (a lot faster in those days, I had a full-size Ford van set up for camping) & went down to the lake to fish.
We caught 1/2 dozen nice trout in 2-3 hours & went back to camp. A lady a couple of campsites away came over & says to us "Y'all just got here & you caught all those fish?!?"
"Yep, nice huh?"
She gets a kinda sad/frustrated look on her face & says "Please don't tell my husband, he spent $2000 on new fishing gear & he's been out on the lake (she points at him) since 5 am & hasn't caught one fish!" :LOL:

We didn't see him, so we didn't have to deal with it.

We left the next day because there was a fire nearby & wanted to beat the crowds.

Some part of the Gila is always on fire in the summer

[Yvonne]

Oh, it is not nice to have a closed museum when you wanna go see it

Pff, that is a lot of reading on that Gila Wilderness page but it looks great.

[Frantic Freddie]

To our dismay the museum was closed Otherwise I'da got pics.

Oh yeah, we were in the Gila Wilderness

[Yvonne]

If it is a nice and interesting museum then I don't mind to visit it

[Adventure]

Who is making who jealous????
I am clearly living in the wrong country

Shes so wants to visit the museum.

Ahh the landscapes are my favourite. If I was there I would climb the hill you see in the 2nd pic.

[Yvonne]

Who is making who jealous????
I am clearly living in the wrong country

[Frantic Freddie]

More pics y'all

The ghost town of Chloride:

This is actually a restaurant, we had lunch there & they were nice enough to let us bring our dog in. My potato salad was raw











The road to Snow Lake, there's a sign when you get off the maintained part "No low-clearance vehicles" & "No services for the next 152 miles"
I didn't get any pics of the really bad parts,but they were in the wooded & mountainous parts. When they say no low clearance vehicles they mean it, I put some nice scrapes on the skidplates

Koalas are small and my suitcase is big. I'm wondering what I will do with a deep frozen Koala after the flight...hihi

In the last picture from Frantic Freddie, there's a barbecue and we have an aussie

Just kidding, i don't want to lose my koala buddy

[Yvonne]

No idea how to fold a Koala but don't use an iron....just put me in the sun and I'll be fine

[Kzin]

Koalas are small and my suitcase is big. I'm wondering what I will do with a deep frozen Koala after the flight...hihi

@ Freddie,
Great pictures and great looking landscape

@Kzin, please let me know when you are going that way so I can fold my self into your suitcase to come with

How do you fold a koala? And if Yvonne is creased do we iron her?

[Kzin]

@OscarW, someday I'll find your hidden cam

Kzin in a tent?!?!?!!! I want pics!

As you can see, he's thrilled with his new tent