Sunday was a travel day – we planned to drop Khan and Polo at an RV storage site where we had made a reservation weeks ago – 25 minutes from the Denver airport and a half hour or so drive from our Longmont AirBnB.  What could go wrong? We left the AirBnB on schedule around…

Most of the judging activities were over except for 3 more hours of pool competition on Saturday morning – the “collaborative” bonus round for all teams.  Another three hours in the pool for Scott.  However, since the teams were working together somewhat rather than working on complicated scoring missions against the clock, this was a…

Thursday and Friday were consumed by Judging responsibilities – no traveling or sightseeing, but interesting enough to chronical in our blog. Anthony had by far the easiest judging responsibilities.  He only had work to do Friday morning, with a briefing then judging posters that each team had to produce about their project of building an…

Today was a travel day to our next stop – an AirBnB with three bedrooms, two baths, full kitchen, laundry facilities, and a hot tub!  The night before Anthony and Tom had carefully washed both Khan and Polo, but it rained and the driveway and dirt road out of our guest house oasis left both…

Today’s blog includes contributions from our featured guest editor, Deborah (or just Deb, if you’re into the whole brevity thing) Also, today’s cover photo is of Edward Thome sporting his new authentic western apparel cowboy hat. Ed is the Executive Director of the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation, and has been with us visiting with the…

Today was our day to meet up with our Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation board members and talk together with the Wideners about family history and lore.  We also continued to benefit from their hospitality, seeing the sights of Sheridan. We started out with lunch at the Brinton Museum with a few Wideners and Lynnewood team,…

Today was a sightseeing and fish lesson day.  Peter Widener met us at the guest house and drove us to town to a fly fishing shop he previously owned for outfitting for fly fishing.  Peter apparently knows everyone in town and we overheard lots of fascinating conversations with the locals.  After we obtained flies, rods,…

Today was mainly a travel day – we departed the campground around 8:30AM planning an arrival at the Widener’s ranch around 2PM. We’ve been having strange problems with both the Winnebago camper and the Sprinter chassis it is built on.  For several cycles of extending and retracting the slide-out, we’ve noticed that it does not…

Today was long and fun-filled in the shadow of Mount Rushmore, despite the gloomy weather.  It rained much of the morning, so we cooked inside – Tom and Scott both ate eggs, bacon, and toasted English muffins while Anthony ate boxed Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Scott bought at the Walmart, since it reminded him of…

Since we arrived in Moon Lake we often heard the sounds Killdeer birds, which flew around the yard of the “headquarters” house we were staying near.  On Wednesday morning Tom found an egg in the yard, which was camouflaged to look like the nearby rocks.  He also observed the bird attempting to lure him away…

Today was a big day for us as guests of Moon Lake Ranch.  In the morning before lunch Kelsey gave us a great tour of the “close” parts of the ranch.  We saw sheep and sheep babies, mountain goats and mountain goat babies, and reindeer and reindeer babies.  We got a great presentation of a…

We (or at least Scott) woke up early at Manawa Lake, but Tom, then Anthony followed, we ate breakfast and hit the road by 8:30AM.  It helped that we had loaded the bikes the night before, and hitched up the Polo as well.  Off to Moon Lake Ranch in Northern Nebraska.  This ranch belongs to…