A couple days ago we went sight seeing with the neighbor.. Taking them to places up here on the Mesa and a few other local sites that they hadn’t seen before.
A couple of the photos show sites you can visit by taking the tour. You can get more info by clicking the link below.
Tours are something new we are offering as a community event. Meaning the funds go back towards bettering the community. Right now tours are only available to campers. As it grows this could change.
Days have been quiet, Thanksgiving day we had 9 campers which all stated they enjoyed their time. The hardest part for us hosting campers is that we want campers to come camp to enjoy the beautiful views and the land. We get campers that come late at night and leave early in the morning. Maybe it shouldn’t matter, they paid to camp, but that’s not the idea of camping here.
But I have to realize that they are probably getting to experience the land even in such a short period of time. The peacefulness and the ability to relax, hopefully get a good sleep before heading out for another drive.
The community is now offering tours of the Mesa, for all campers. Come see the views, learn some of the history of bombings, aliens and more!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!! We had a successful community Turkey dinner yesterday, with a lot of good food. Played Dirty Bingo which is always fun and gets a lot of good laughs.
Today we are staying home, relaxing, enjoying the #macysthanksgivingdayparade and football. We have 9 campers scheduled to come in, and maybe some snow.
We hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving Day!!
Turkey is on the grill for the Community Turkey Day celebration today..
We hope everyone has a safe Thanksgiving tomorrow!! I’m not sure what we will be doing, other than waiting on the few campers scheduled to come in.
We are now offering a tour of the mesa.
Come camp and take a tour of the mesa. Take a ride on the back roads of the West Mesa. Learn the history of Alien sightings, WW2 bombing practices, old west outlaws, land scams and volcanoes. View the overlooks of the Rio Grande valley and Arroyo, visit the labyrinths of the erected carved stones, and ruins of 1950’s wells.
Not much been going on out here, we are getting ready for a nice Turkey day with the neighbors. Nights, though chilly, have been clear with beautiful sky views. If you believe in aliens or not, camping out here you may have some experiences that will make you wonder. We have to admit we’ve seen a few questionable things ourselves. Strange lights in the skies, making weird movements that suddenly will be surrounded by helicopters. Was it a military practice or something else? I don’t know if we will ever know for sure. Comment with your thoughts and experiences.
Mornings have been a bit chilly here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun , It was 17 outside when we got up this morning… Since we run a buddy heater for our heat, we only tend to run it at night before going to bed and in the morning when we get up. This morning when we got out of the warm bed, it was 30 degrees inside. The dogs wanted out, but Weillow met me with her teeth chattering.. Weillow wears a jacket and crawls up on the couch at night under blankets.. Like us she was probably warm until she had to go to the bathroom.
We can run the heater all night and probably will if we feel it’s going to get cold. Cold to us is when it doesn’t warm up during the day. Usually our days warm up enough to warm the inside of the RV nicely, we open windows and doors to get the heat in, but before it starts to cool off we shut everything down to trap in the warmth. We tend to stay at an even temp (depending on outside temp) until around 9-10 pm.. If we plan on staying up a bit we kick on the #buddyheater until we are ready for bed or it warms up. We do this as we feel safer, and save on propane even though we have smoke and Co2 detectors, sleeping with the heater off.. In the morning the first to wake up turns on the heater.
We had talked about doing wood, but if you’ve ever seen any of our photos trees are pretty sparse, and the cost of wood isn’t worth it.
What have you used for heat. Comment below and let us know.
A couple months ago we did something that we had no plans on doing. We got a puppy we called “Amigo”, he was 8 weeks old born July 20th. We asked about his parents mother being around 40lbs and father 80lbs.. Amigo seemed tiny to us, so we thought he would get around 50 lbs a perfect size for the RV, since Dreugan is 100 lbs, smaller dog would have been nice.. Though at Amigo’s last vet exam at 13 weeks, he weighed in at 24 lbs, which means he’ll get around 80 lbs maybe more..
That’s fine with us, sometimes smaller isn’t easier.. We broke all our plans with getting Amigo, when Litha passed we wanted to wait to get another dog, and planned on getting a med size (not puppy, we just got past the puppy stage with Dreugan) dog. But when we saw the puppy sign Brent and I both felt compelled to go look (we never go look at parking lot puppies). We got there and the first puppy to come to us was Amigo, he looked similar to Litha even with the same white marks on his chest (Amigo is a different breed, only color, markings are similar, we don’t expect him to be Litha). We tried to put Amigo back in with the other pups but he didn’t want to go.
So now Amigo is part of our family, he’s vaccinated, chipped and officially a family member. This may sound weird to some but we feel Litha picked him out for us. 3rd picture is Litha- June 2015 to Sept 2022 ❤️
I have been getting a lot of memories from Facebook, and Google of our move here a little over two years ago. Moving here on the land was the first thing Brent and I have done for ourselves since we have been together. We have helped others build their land to do events for many years.
But we wanted to do something for ourselves, we wanted to have our own campground and Event center.
Moving here to Plateau Hame De Colquhoun has been a learning curve. The land was vacant, had trash left by individuals dumping, cow patties from the free range cattle, cactus, snake weeds, yucca and more.
Before we could open we cleaned up and hauled off the trash, mowed, built a road for better access, build a stage, toilet.
In April of 2022 we opened for our first event an open mic. We were very fearful, we had worked many events for others but this was our first time for ourselves. We had a lot of what ifs. What if nobody shows, what if solar and generators don’t work the way we planned, what if people don’t like it, what if the road out deters people.. So many what ifs we had thought about quitting. But us being who we are (stubborn) we kept going. People did come, they said they enjoyed themselves. This made all the work so far worth it!
For all wondering as we get asked a lot.. Plateau Hame De Colquhoun is Scottish for Plateau Home of Colquhoun (Ka-hoon). Colquhoun is a Scottish clan which is Brent Colquhoun ancestry.
I wanted to add the Colquhoun March to the video but I wasn’t able to find one I could us.. So here is a link to the Colquhoun March..
Our first Kitchen we had set up here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun . It lasted 2 months, we then upgraded to a heavy duty carport, and used pieces of the old one to build a shower house. During this time you couldn’t go into town and shower due to Covid. What we did was use an electric water pump (ran off the generator), an on demand water heater. The 2nd carport lasted until the end of January, shower lasted about a month.
We have come along way since then. Still no shower, but that’s okay we can go in now and shower at Planet Fitness (Los Lunas, NM) . We are solid now, no tarps, no carport for the winds to destroy.
Happy Veterans Day, we thank all the veterans for serving and supporting us!
Not much has been happening here, had a few campers and getting a few things ready for a neighborhood Turkey Day.
We have started to work on next year’s Haunted Hell Ride.We had good reviews from the Hell Ride this year, it did better than we expected, especially being our first. We have learned a few things that we hope to incorporate into next year’s Hay ride. Date is set, though been debating doing one or two nights?
If you’d like to learn more about us here at Plateau Hame De Colquhoun and what we do, please visit our website, message us or leave a comment.
Ka-Hoon Campground and Event Center 