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Loveland RV Park, Loveland, Colorado. Tachometer – 3159 miles 

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Today’s weather was dramatically better than yesterday’s torrents. The last of the rain ended around 5:30am and we embarked on a sunny city day. Our first mission was to find a suitable place to park the RV in downtown Denver. Luckily this is not New York or San Francisco, and we easily found an open air (no height limit) parking lot for $4 a day. In SF that’s what you pay pr hour at a cheap place.

Since the weather was so good, we postponed our museum plans even though we were parked right next to the DAM (Denver Museum of Art). Instead we opted to stroll 16^th street in LoDo, lower downtown. This is a renovated part of the city with an outdoor mall running for about 20 blocks. It was fun to stroll down the streets of a big city, I guess Paola and I have metropolitan blood flowing in our veins and we need to breath city air once in a while.

We strolled till lunchtime and then found a nice Moroccan restaurant for lunch. Nothing like good old Mediterranean food, including hummus and couscous  to revive one’s weary body.

After lunch we took a free municipal bus back to the museum area and went in for a little bit of culture. The art museum is newly renovated and had a lot of corners with kids’ activities. We saw some western art as well as contemporary and post modern exhibits. I can’t say that the children were ecstatic about viewing paintings and sculptures, but luckily many had some animal themes (mainly horses) to observe and discuss. Ron particularly wanted to examine an arrow wound that a bison received from an Indian hunter on a horse.

We left Denver in the late afternoon and drove north on I-25 to Loveland where we are now parked for the night in a nice campground (=good playground for the kids).

Good night,

-Hemi

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