VACATION

Summer time is such a great time, kids are out of school, more daylight hours, and a chance that you might get to go on a vacation. My idea of a vacation is a cabin up in the mountains, away from everyone, just the mountains, creek, fish, cool days and cold nights. A place that we have always enjoyed going is the Continental Ranch up on the Continental Divide above Creede in Colorado. The cabins only have electricity for a couple of hours in the evening and then the generator is turned off. After that it's coal oil lamps, you have a wood (and coal) cook stove to heat and cook on. The cabins have 2 beds, a table and chairs and the stove, complete with the outhouse out back. Have you ever had someone throw rocks at the outhouse while you are inside?

The cabins aren't rented any more, and it's a shame, it was a great place to go to rest, relax, go trout fishing. One of the interesting things about this place is that Becky and I both went there as kids. Becky's parents were good friends with John Albert and Margie Dabney who owned the ranch, and it was a real working ranch. I'm not sure how my parents found out about the place, but we went there, and Becky and I think that we may have played together as kids. She says that she remembers playing with some kid from Texas, and his mother had church on Sunday morning....could be, seems to fit. Anyway, this was one of our favorite vacation spots as kids and as adults, our kids love it as much as we do.

A vacation is supposed to refresh you physically, emotionally, mentally and even spiritually. All too often we have to return home from vacation so we can get some rest. So I have to ask...

What is your ideal vacation? Let's hear from some of our readers.