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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. (more…)

Delux RV Campground, Denver, Colorado. Tachometer – 3094 miles

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The forecast for the next few days called for lower temperatures and thunderstorms. This was a sign for us to leave the Rockies for lower altitude and indoor activity. So we headed down to Denver today, about 70 miles away. (more…)

Mary’s Lake Campground, Estes Park, Colorado. Tachometer – 3003 miles

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We woke up to a relatively warm and sunny day and drove early to the park. We drove up to Bear Lake only to be instructed by the ranger to drive back down 4 miles to a parking lot for RVs. From that parking lot we took a free shuttle (Ron loves them) back up. The lake itself is at almost 10,000’ and is small enough for a half mile loop trail around it. The views of surrounding peaks are magnificent. We had a fun time, especially on parts of the trail that were still covered with snow. (more…)

Mary’s Lake Campground, Estes Park, Colorado. Tachometer – 2959 miles

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Today we felt for the first time what holiday season means. The park was full of people and cars. There was a long line just to get in past the park entrance point. We wanted to hike to Cub Lake but the parking lot near the trailhead was so full that even if we were in a regular car and not an RV we wouldn’t have been able to park. (more…)

Mary’s Lake Campground, Estes Park, Colorado. Tachometer – 2909 miles

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We woke up at 6am to Orr’s crying. Noting calmed her down and she woke Shir up too. Paola tended to them while I tried to sleep some more but in vain, too much noise. How Ron slept through this is unclear.

We left the campground before 9am for a long day of driving. Shir and Orr fell asleep immediately. (more…)

This was a few days ago near Mesa Verde National Park. My poor kids have nothing to eat except for Snow.

KOA Buena Vista Campground, Buena Vista, Colorado. Tachometer – 2680 miles

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Shabbat Shalom.
We spent some time in the campground playground this morning before heading off to the next national park. If you have never heard of it, that’s ok, neither did we until we saw that it is conveniently located on our way to the Rockies. The Gunnison is a river that flows east west here in Colorado and there is a 40 mile section that runs through a very deep gorge. At the “Black Canyon” part, for a few miles, the distance between the canyon walls is less than a mile, but the height is between 500-700 meters, which means that the river hardly gets to see any sunlight. Hence black. (more…)

KOA Ouray Campground, Ouray, Colorado. Tachometer – 2480 miles

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We woke up to a clear and bright morning and the sun started melting away the little snow that had accumulated on our RV. We headed back to Mesa Verde for a second attempt and today was much more successful. We booked a ranger led tour of “Cliff Palace” which is one of the dwellings from ~1280. To get there we had to walk down some steep stairs and climb up a 3 meter ladder. Paola had Shir in a backpack carrier and I took Orr on my hands. Ron was totally independent. The tour was very short in distance, only 500 meters, but with the ranger explaining things it took one hour. The kids got restless very quickly and we had to keep them busy and quiet for the sake of the rest of the group. (more…)

A & A Mesa Verde RV Park & Campground, Mancos, Colorado. Tachometer – 2321 miles

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Today was another rainy and even snowy day. Cold and unrelenting till the day was almost over. It was raining most of the night and when we woke up as well. We took our time getting organized hoping it would let up. So we made a big breakfast with pancakes and then headed off to Mesa Verde National Park. This place has several ancient cliff dwellings that have been preserved for 1000 years. (more…)