I grew up in south Denver--only 2 to 3 blocks from the Valley Highway, now known as I-25. Through the years I have lived in and around Denver, as well as in smaller towns, like Boulder, Castle Rock, Oconomowoc, WI, Mesa, AZ, and Gold Canyon, AZ. During our years of RVing, we also lived in places like Cannonville, Utah, and Walsenburg, Colorado and Wamic, Oregon.  I loved RVing and learning about life in small towns.  But I am really a city girl. We are now living in an apartment in Lone Tree, Colorado, on the south side of Denver.  And this is truly city living.  On our morning walk the other day, we saw this concrete pumping activity for a soon-to-be parking garage and apartment house.  Our current zip code is almost entirely filled with apartments buildings.  It is so interesting!   In Wamic, I would wake up and see cows out the bedroom window.  Here our windows open on an interior courtyard, but any time we leave the building, we see peopl...

 Last month I posted (in our old blog 5thWheelWanderings.blogspot.com ) that we had sold our Airstream travel trailer and for the first time since 1989 or 1990, we no longer own an RV.  Hence this new blog, OurNewChoice.blogspot.com . As everyone knows, inflation is rampant and fuel prices are through the roof.  Because those prices are increasing daily, John fills our tank frequently.  Earlier this week, he put in 9.4 gallons of diesel for $50.43 .  We had driven 102.4 miles since the last fill-up.  That means we paid just over 49 cents per mile and averaged10.96 miles per gallon.  And we weren't towing an RV! For several years when we were traveling extensively, I kept a record of how many miles we drove each year and how many miles we were towing an RV.  In 2017 we drove 10,666 miles, towing 4004 of those miles.  In 2018 we drove a total of 16,843 miles, 7,823 towing, 9020 towing.  Our miles per gallon rate is always lower when we are...

Both John and I graduated from high school in 1961, John from Douglas County High School in Castle Rock and I from South High School in Denver.  That may be where the similarity ends.  My graduating class had 998 members if I remember rightly, John's had 54. One year before I graduated, the Denver school district added three new high schools to accommodate all the post World War II growth.  At that time there were 1021 students in our class. In1960, 50 of our class were transferred to Washington and 725 to Jeffersone As of 2022, 621 of our class have been located, 205 are missing and 195 known dead. This is a picture of South. In 1986, we had 25-year reunions and in 2011, 50th class reunions.  I don't remember if we attended the 25-year reunions, but we attended both 50th reunions and had a good time at both.  John found another spouse to talk to while I caught up with classmates I remembered and some whose names rang a bell but I didn't remember them. In 1975 J...