Our friend and fellow nomad Chris Dunphy came thru Colorado for a couple of days with his friend Cherie from Florida. Their first night here Andrew took them up to our property to camp in Chris' T@B trailer. They stopped by our neighbor's place and Lynn offered to let us cook dinner there. I was finishing a painting at our trailer, got a call from Andrew and grabbed our stuff for dinner and some beer and headed up the mountain to Lynn's. Lynn's wife Linda came in from Colorado Springs and the 6 of us had dinner and drinks and chatted until almost midnight. The next night, Chris, Cherie, Andrew and I went into Salida for dinner and some live music. We went to the top of "S" mountain. They have a thing out west where they put the initial of the town or the logo of the local school in the side of a nearby mountain. "S" mountain (probably not it's real name) is accessed by Spiral Drive, a road that, you guessed it, spirals to the top of the mountain. They had "Christmas Mountain" strung with lights. We've heard that they turn the whole mountain into a giant Christmas tree with ornaments in lights and a star on top. We wandered around town and Chris loved the Bungled Jungle shop, but it was closed when we got there. After dinner at Amica's Pizza we went over to Bongo Billy's to catch some music by Jill Cohn. It was 16 degrees when we got back to our trailer at Big Horn Park and even colder up at Chris' trailer on our property. Brrr....

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