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Bellvue Watson Fish Hatchery

Hello everyone, Jodi and I have been here in Bellvue, Colorado for a little over 2 months and working at Bellvue-Watson Fish Hatchery feeding the thousands of rainbow trout. We have four raceways about a thousand feet long full of fish. We feed them just about every day with about 800lbs of fish food, using a truck of course. It has been very interesting and very fun working here. We do other things like grounds maintenance, painting, and cleaning. The hatchery is open every day from 8am to 3pm and we even give tours of the hatchery. We enjoy hosting here so much that we are returning again next summer. We like the area a lot. It’s quiet and has a beautiful surroundings, plus Fort Collins is a fun town and full of entertainment. We go to live music events in town and Lory State Park to hike. We worked at Lory State Park two years ago. Some pictures of the area we live at and around us.

Wildfires of Colorado

While here in Colorado, we have been worried about the wildfires that spark up here and there. Two years ago, when we were at Lory State Park, we had lightning start a wild fire just 4 to 5 miles away, but they got that one under control quickly. Well just a week ago, there have been 5 wildfires start up around us and they all happen within a week. The largest one, the Alexander Mountain fire was the first one to start and it is 16 miles away. About 25 people have lost their homes, and it’s growing. About 10,000 acres has burned and only 35% is contained, and all 5 wildfires are still going. This is scary for sure. That is really the only thing that does concern us when we are out west. We don’t have to worry about the hurricanes and the hundreds of tornadoes out east. Just hail and wildfires.

We are here at the hatchery till September. After that we head to Florence, Arizona for our winter hosting job at Desert Gardens RV Resort. We will be there for 6 months and then head back to the Bellvue Watson Hatchery for the last hosting job. We will then winter from then on at Sierra Vista, Arizona at the Vista View RV Resort that we found last winter. We fell in love with that resort and we have a real nice RV site with a storage shed and great view of the mountains. There are some awesome people that stay there for the winter or all year-round and they have lots of games, fun events and dinners. We plan on staying at that RV resort for winters, about 9 months, and head north to the upper United States to site see areas like Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Washington, Utah for about 3 months during the hot summers of Arizona. We will be pretty much done with the traveling all over the United States for hosting jobs and just head to Arizona for winters, and up to the northwestern states for summer visits. We are happy we finally found a permanent winter location in Arizona. We will continue to travel and site see a few places up north each summer. We can’t give up this lifestyle of traveling and seeing the many beautiful places we have still not yet seen. Many more adventures ahead of us. The pictures below is the Vista View RV Resort in Sierra Vista, AZ that we will be spending our winters at. Great place.

We hope all is well with everyone, and you are staying cool and safe. We will do the same!! If you have any questions or comments, please leave them on here. I will answer you as soon as I can. Keep following us on our travels and see where we BOBBLE TO NEXT!!!!!!

THE BOBBLE HEAD TRAVELERS JODI AND MARK

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A Sunset shot from Western Way RV Resort becomes a memory encapsulated in the hues of an evening sky, where the sun dips below the horizon in a gentle yet profound goodbye. At Western Way RV Resort, guests are often treated to this spectacular display, where the sky transforms into a canvas painted with strokes of pink, orange, and purple.

Hello everyone, we are heading north to Colorado from Arizona. We have stayed in Tucson for a month before we headed up north. So we wanted to tell you about our trip up through Arizona and then through New Mexico, then up to Colorado. We are in Cottonwood Arizona at Dead Horse Ranch State Park just outside of Sedona AZ. Sedona is supposed to be gorgeous. While at Dead Horse Ranch, we will visit Tuzigoot National Monument and Red Rock State Park in Sedona, AZ. Then we head to go stand on the corner in Winslow Arizona and will be staying at Homolovi State Park in. While there, we plan on seeing the Meteor Crater and the Petrified Forest National Park. Then we travel back through New Mexico past Albuquerque and will be staying at a casino, Sky City RV park in Acoma, NM. There we may check out some indigenous areas around the area. After that we head straight up to Fort Collins and hit about two more state parks before getting to our destination place in Bellvue, CO, where we will be working at the Bellvue-Watson Fish Hatchery. We are excited about getting there and giving tours and feeding the fish.. Fun fun….

I want to leave you some photos that we took while in Tucson, and show you the four main attractions we went to while there.

We stayed at Western Way RV Resort for a month, and it’s a pretty nice resort with activities and a pool, with hot tub. Sites have a concrete patio, but you are on top of each other. The resort is close to two places that Jodi and I went to.

Old Tucson Studios (Western Theme Park) 3 miles up the road from resort. This is the location that they did over 500 western movies and are still filming to this day. Shows like Bonanza, High Chaparral, Little House On the Prairie, Tombstone with Kurt Russel, Three Amigos with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short. It also boasts older movies with John Wayne like the first one filmed there in 1940 called Arizona. Plus many many more. Jodi and I took a one hour tour and the guide showed us where a lot of the film sets were, and who and what movies were filmed. Since it was a private tour with about 10 people, there was no one else around to get into any of my photo shoots of many of the film set locations. Since the theme park was closed for just tours, we went again the next day to see the rest of the place and ride the old carousel that dates back to 1907. So enjoy the photos we took.

Saguaro National Park where there are over 2 million saguaros and 28 other cactus species throughout the national park. The park is divided into two sections; one on the West side of Tucson, and one on the East side of Tucson, 25 miles apart from one another. We were on the West side so Jodi and I of course went 7 miles up the road to the West side. Next year we will go visit the East side of the national park. We spent about 6 hours driving around and hiking with a short picnic. It was an awesome day and we got some nice pictures. Enjoy…

We also had a chance to go into Tucson and see the Van Gogh Immersive Experience which was a good 4 hours of pure enjoyment. What an experience to see. You learn all about his life and his art. The exhibit had a huge room with all four walls and the floor with his moving artwork. It just blew you away with all the beautiful creations that he did all his life. Enjoy the Pictures.

We got to see the SpaceX launch from our site in Western Way RV Resort. We climbed up on top of our RV roof and got a great view.

April 8^th we happened to see a partial eclipse of 69% of the covering of the sun. This is our second eclipse in less than a year; one annular and one total. We had seen the annual one that was October 14^th 2023 while we were staying at City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico. We did the colander shining on something white to see a bunch of half circles. We also had the glasses to view it as it was going on. We took a picture of it with our phone using the glasses.

Just a few Pictures from Dead Horse Ranch State Park

A sneak peak of Red Rock State Park, will post more beautiful pictures of Red Rock State Park on the next Blog Post….

We will be seeing much more heading up to Colorado, but will have to wait for the next post to see all of the new photos and attractions that we will see during the travels up north. So as we always say, wait to see where we Bobble to next and check out our next post….. Take care be safe and stay healthy and stay tuned in for our next Adventure..

The Bobble Head Travelers

Jodi and Mark