The wanderers

OK, well, sometimes I think I'm crazy and sometimes I know I am. So yesterday it was time to leave the Rocky Mountain National Park and move on. The plan, as mentioned below, was still to go to Wyoming, since I've never been there before, but the more we looked at the map, the more silly it seemed to go there just to say I'd set foot in that state. There really doesn't look like there's much to see in the southeastern part of the state. So, we headed east from the park toward I-25 on a different road than we'd come in on. It is truly beautiful...but then almost everywhere in Colorado is beautiful.

We got to Loveland and decided to head south...back home maybe, back to New Mexico maybe...just back. In Denver, we decided to head west on I-70 and as soon as we got back into the mountains, Jim perked up. He has been very patient and tolerant and understanding of my waffling and sometime discontent. He has been wanting to find a “free” campsite in a national forest so I told him to go right ahead. I'd put him in charge of finding a place to stay.

We got off the road at Georgetown...what a gorgeous little place! It's not very far from Denver really but it's not a ski town for some reason so seems a little more reasonable. A guy in the visitor center told us to head toward the Guanella Pass to find a campground though most would probably be full. They were but we did see another little white trailer pulled off on the side of the road, so we pulled in too. It was truly lovely with a large grassy area and a babbling brook below...mostly out of sight, but not earshot. We spent the night there and again I slept very well.

We woke up early...this is the new pattern...early to bed and early to rise...aren't we so farmerish! We packed it up and went back into Georgetown for a delicious if unhealthful breakfast then roamed around a bit in the quaint little downtown area. We left by lunchtime and ended up tonight in Salida, where we have FULL HOOKUPS which means water, electricity and even sewer. I could take the longest shower in the history of the world except that I washed all the towels earlier and they told me that the dryers were 80 cents but only took quarters...what? I got what seemed like enough quarters, but after the clothes were washed and I put them in the dryers, I found that 75 cents gets you 9 minutes...9 MINUTES...of drying. Nothing dries in nine minutes. So, I used up all the quarters I had and now everything is still wet.

Oh well, if I can get the blog updated that will at least be something.

Sorry to go on and on. No Wyoming or Montana this trip. Now the plans are western Colorado, Chaco Canyon, Dee's place and then back home. Don't know when at this point.

I'm a happier camper today anyway.

All the best.