Texans

Oh Texans!  So much can be said about them, so I will say a little, since this is my blog, and I have an opinion! Tuddy-dut!

We parked our rig in the Mountain Views RV Park and Resort, but we may as well have parked it in Texas, in fact, to quote Bugs Bunny, we thought we may have taken a wong toyn in Albukoikee!  Nope, we were in Creede, Colorado, about three hours south west of Denver, up in the high Rocky Mountains!

So, why is half of Texas here, RV-ing in Creede?  Well, there are several answers.  One reply I received when asking a lady from Texas that very question said, and this is a direct quote including her Texas accent, "Texas use' ta own Colarada, ya know!"  Well, that explains everything!  Her brash answer succinctly sums up the Texas attitude around here.  They feel they "used to own it" and so they claim some kind of convoluted entitlement even now. (What actually happened in a nutshell is that the Republic of Texas included what is now part of Colorado, but that all changed after the war of 1846.)

Another answer, which I think is more accurate,  is that Texas is bleedin' hot in the summer, and the senior citizens with dough and an RV get out of there and head for higher country.  The ones who choose Creede are the ones that wish to avoid the incredibly high mountain passes in every direction, except to hed for the San Luis Valley. It provides a route that is easier to drive in a half a million dollar Class A Diesel Pusher.  The roads into Colorado from the south are tricky, and tough, to say the least.  We know because we survived the Wolf Creek pass, at 27 miles per hour in first gear, all the way up!

Big 4 wheeler, bigger truck, and biggest Rig!

Back to Texans!  They have always summered here, since before there was a Texas and before there was a Colorado.  When people  are too hot they find ways of getting to cooler climes. The attitude of the Texans here is that  Colorado is a quaint and sleepy little back woods state located conveniently in Texas's back yard and made for Texan's enjoyment.

 In the spring, after the main melt in rural Colorado, here they come with their brightly colored, super turbo 4 wheelers, secured on to matching trailers, and pulled behind  mammoth motor-homes.  Their clear intent is to buzz all over John Denver's country roads and get their Rocky Mountain high, until the temperatures fall and  time to head south, to the cooler weather in the Lone Star State. And some of them have been coming here all their lives!  It is unlike anything I have ever witness before in such magnitude:  how one group of people can feel so entitled to overwhelm another. (Sadly, this happens all the time in our country and all over the globe. ) The people of Creed, and I imagine all the small Colorado towns,  have come to rely on the Texans  spend their money and breath life into their diminishing economies of southern Colorado.  So, it ain't all bad and it seems to be the only option, unless of course the silver market recovers.

Creede is a great example of this.  It is a mining town that hasn't mined since 1985 and so now must rely on tourism to keep afloat.  and it seems to be working...barely.  Creede has some economic issues and is experiencing many difficulties, but the locals are fiercely loyal to their town and they will tough it out in their mountain home any way they can.  After all,  it is Creede we are talking about.  And Creed is a fine place.

I love it too.