Category: Colorado
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Lost Valley Ranch Colorado September 2014
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Day 52, Estes Park, CO to Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota via Wyoming, May 25th
402.3 RV miles today, 8,059.1 total Drove to Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park to visit where we had taken our kids ~17 years ago. Then traveled up through Wyoming with Toby riding “shotgun” over to South Dakota to our Rafter J Bar Ranch RV campsite. After dinner, drove the short distance to Mt.…
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Day 51, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, May 24nd
98 RV miles today, 7,656.3 total Camped in Rocky Mountain National Park. Took the high road just opened up to the Alpine Center at 12,150 feet elevation. Amazing driving through 15 foot snow drifts. Temperature dropped from 74 degrees at campsite to 44 degrees at Alpine Center!?!? Ended up at another local favorite restaurant/tavern for…
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Day 50, Boulder, Colorado, The Bellians, May 23rd
295 RV miles today, 7,853 total Spent a glorious day in Boulder hiking up to Royal Arch at Flat Irons. Lunch & dinner in downtown Boulder. Cam is cycling competitively. Lindley is climbing/skiing. Toby joined Oliver, the cat, Daisy, the dog & seldom seen Emma, the cat, in the household. Here’s a pic of Oliver…
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Day 49, Cimarron, NM to Boulder, Colorado, The Bellians, May 23rd
295 RV miles today, 7,853 total Overnight in Cimarron. We left New Mexico & headed up through Denver 4 & 1/2 hours to visit our friends, Christin, Ken, Lindley & Cam Bellian in Boulder, Colorado. They had lived in Fayetteville 13 years & have been here almost 2 years. They are the outdoor family biking,…
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Day 46, Mesa Verde National Park, CO, Rehoboth, NM with Newmans, May 19th
200 RV miles today, 7,147.4 total We spent the day at Mesa Verde National Park. We took the Cliff Palace & Balcony guided tours & the Spruce Tree House hike. The park was created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt, to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world. The Spanish term Mesa Verde translates into English as…
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Day 45, Drive from North Rim Grand Canyon, AZ to Mesa Verde, CO via Four Corners, May 18th
373.4 RV miles today, 6,947.4 total Beth & I had breakfast at the Grand Canyon Lodge with magnificent canyon views. We left the north rim and traveled over 300 miles to the Mesa Verde RV Campground ~ 1 mile from the Mesa Verde National Park entrance. We stopped at Four Corners in Navajo land along…