Greetings and salutations! We’re excited to finally start up the 2022 season with Bojack!
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Bojack’s 2022 Camping Season Begins TOMORROW!
Happy 2022: The Cutthroat Colorado Camping Conundrum
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We’re here! As Bojack sits at his parking spot at the USAF Academy, we here have been planning our camping weekends for the year. I need to update our map too.
Since 2022 is also the year that we’re able to start traveling in other ways, after two years of no significant travel, our camping season is a little less than before. It’s still not bad, though. Usually our goal is one camping weekend per month, between about April and October. Continue reading “Happy 2022: The Cutthroat Colorado Camping Conundrum”
‘Nomadland’: Both the Movie and the Book….
Since I started my current job about 1 1/2 years ago as a meteorologist for NORAD, I’ve returned to listening to audiobooks more. I had listened to them quite a bit for several years when I had to make 3-hour drives to and from my Air Force Reserve assignments in Virginia and South Carolina. But that was well over a decade ago. Continue reading “‘Nomadland’: Both the Movie and the Book….”
Camping Trip Review: Mountain View RV Resort, near Cañon City, Colorado
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving! I can’t believe I forgot to write up our experience in Cañon City, Colorado from the end of September.
This trip inadvertently became our last camping trip of the season, thanks to COVID-19 running rampant through our family the following week, taking us out till mid-October. We ended up having to cancel our Columbus Day weekend trip to Mueller State Park, which was heartbreaking: it was going to be with friends and right around the peak golden aspen time of year. Maybe another year we can try it again.
Name of Campground: Mountain View RV Resort
Location: About 8 miles NW of Cañon City, Colorado, on U.S. Highway 50.
Dates Stayed: 24-26 September 2021
Miles Traveled: 65 miles.
Site #: 15, which was considered a “deluxe pull-thru”, but it was a somewhat tight, complicated pull-thru.
Hookups?: Full hookups!
Cost: $60/night + $10 for our 16 year old son
Amenities: Nice bathrooms with free showers, small playground in the shade, two dog walk areas
Cell Service/WiFi: There is WiFi, but it was very weak from our site. We ended up using our cell phones to stream Netflix in the camper.
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Meal Planning
I wanted to share our primitive method of meal planning. One of the big perks of camping is that we can take our own food and cook it how we see fit. When the electricity situation allows, we can even take things like an Instant Pot or an air fryer. Depending on the menu choices. Continue reading “Meal Planning”
Royal Gorge This Weekend!
This weekend we’re taking Bojack out again. We took a break for a few weeks, our last trip with him was over July 4th weekend. In August, we did go camping — tent camping — with our neighbors at Mueller State Park, near Divide, CO. This is the 4th year in a row that we’ve been out with our neighbors, usually on our anniversary weekend in early August, and it’s a highlight of our summer. Continue reading “Royal Gorge This Weekend!”
Set Up and Teardown Tales
Dave and I have now taken four weekend trips with our Bojack. Wow…four. We have two more trips planned this season, but not till September and October. Bojack’s on a break these next few weeks as we focus on our sons activities, including moving our oldest to college in August.
We’re slowly feeling like we’re migrating out of the “newbie” phase and starting to get used to things. Dave and I seem to have a great groove going, we communicate to each other what parts we will play in setup and teardown, and so far that has worked well. And our marriage is still intact after numerous back-up-the-trailer experiences.
As we get more comfortable and confident, we have started discussing being able to take longer trips, as well as venturing into boondocking: camping without electricity, water, or dump hookups. Continue reading “Set Up and Teardown Tales”
Traveling With the Whole Gang: Leveling Up on Space
This past weekend’s trip was the first one where our entire family of four, plus our dog, came along. It was a really tight fit. So tight, in fact, we kicked our youngest son (who is 6’1″) out to the neighbor’s Class A camper. They had plenty of room over there. Continue reading “Traveling With the Whole Gang: Leveling Up on Space”
Camping Trip Review: Mt. Princeton RV Resort, Buena Vista, CO
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Name of Campground: Mt. Princeton RV Park
Location: About 1 mile north of Buena Vista, Colorado, just off U.S. Highway 24
Dates Stayed: 2-5 July 2021 (3 nights)
Miles Traveled: 108 miles each way
Site #: B1, Pull thru
Hookups: Full hookups!
Amenities: Playground, pay showers (50 cents per 3 minutes), activity room with books and puzzles, very active social scene, dog park
Cell Service/WiFi: The park has WiFi, but the further you are from the central part of the park, the weaker the signal is. Cell service was hit or miss. Continue reading “Camping Trip Review: Mt. Princeton RV Resort, Buena Vista, CO”
Buena Vista or Bust!
Definitely a perk of living in Colorado — having such beautiful places to visit!
This weekend we are heading out with Bojack to Buena Vista*, Colorado, a town near the headwaters of the Arkansas River.
*It’s pronounced “Bew-nuh Vista”. I don’t know why….but this history lesson may provide a little insight.
We have reservations at the Mt. Princeton RV Park, which has a lovely view of Mt. Princeton itself, but isn’t super close the other famous attraction with “Mt. Princeton” in the name: the hot springs, which we may visit this weekend. The RV park has very high reviews, but we were a little stunned at some of the policies. For example, there’s a limit of one dog per reserved site. Also, they are quite strict about not arriving after 6pm, they don’t want folks trying to set up camp late at night, waking up neighbors. We hadn’t experienced either of these policies before.
In an hour or so Dave and I will go get Bojack from storage, to load up and head out around lunchtime. He went out there a couple times earlier this week to do system checks and fix the carbon monoxide detector (it was factory-original: it was time to replace it since Bojack is now 5 years old).
That’s all I’ll write for now….you’ll hear more from me after the trip…maybe during? I don’t know! Ta!