Summer Vacation 2024 Is Right Around the Corner

Summer Vacation 2024 Is Right Around the Corner

By Marcella S. Meeks

School lets out for the summer here in the little town of Logansport, Louisiana on May 22^nd and we all know what that means! Vacation time for this traveling Mamaw! Kendray (my 12 year old grandson) and I will be leaving out on the 23^rd or 24^th (west bound!) to Colorado for several weeks. This year, I have the privilege of staying at the Texan Resort in Lake City until August 1^st. The Texan will be

our base camp but we’ll be moving around a bit in June and July but coming back to Lae City each time. We’ll be in Cuchara for a few nights at the Dodgecreek Inn, and then heading over to Leadville to stay at Sugar Loafin’ Cabins before heading back to Lake City. I’ve got a rafting trip in Taos, New Mexico coming up at New Mexico River Adventures – my grandson and I are both are looking forward to that. We’ll be heading over to Farmington, New Mexico at some point to visit family for a night or two and then over to Hanksville, Utah.

While we are in Hanksville, we’re going over to Moab and ride the rapids with Sherri Grifith River Expeditions. Rafting is the best! We’ve rafter before with several groups from Canon City, Buena Vista, Salida and Durango before and they were great. Each one was different and got the adrenaline flowing, that’s for sure. NM River Adventures and Sheri Griffith Expeditions sounds like a lot of fun. We’ve yet to experience these thrills but soon, very soon, we’ll ge the chance!

We’ll squeeze Arizona in somewhere on our way heading home, we’ll come back through Carlsbad. We’ll stop and do the Carlsbad Caverns.

I’ve think I’ve got Rocky Mountain Fever (or cabin fever!). One of ’em! I can’t wait to be in Lake City at The Texan Resort. But as I always say, The Texan has become a family tradition and I don’t feel right if we didn’t come here every year.

I’m looking forward to this trip and can’t wait till packing day. Oh, but that’s right. I’m already packed and ready – just have to load it all in the trailblazer! My excitement is mounting and I am getting antsy. I just know I will forget something when we leave. It never fails.

I had to renew my license last month. So I didn’t forget about that. I’m legal for another six years LOL! I got the oil changed in my car and the tires rotated. All the belts checked and other than the AC not working yet, I’m all good. But hopefully that will be fixed over the weekend! We drove home through Amarillo last year in the scorching heat when the AC quit working. We went through a case of water trying to stay cool. We must have stopped a hundred times in one day just to get ice chips! Fingers crossed – the new compressor will solve the problem this year…

That’s it for today! Just counting down the time until we leave! I’ll have more about our trip coming as it unfolds!