Add Colorado to my “Visited States”

I left Taos and the weather was perfect.  A great day for driving.  It was only 134 miles but if you asked Chica she would tell you it was 1,000.  She hasn’t quite got used to the movement of her new home.  Hang in there bumkins!

Our destination was Great Sand Dunes National Park.  The scenery heading up there was fantastic.

I can add Colorado to my map of states that I have RV’d in.  By the way I have made a small map of all those states on the right sidebar just below the Site Meter.

It didn’t cost me anything to get into the park.  Just show my Geezer Pass.  Plus the camping was 1/2 price for no hook-up sites. I am camped in the Pinyon Flats campground and found a nice site that was fairly level in Loop 2.  Chica and I walked down and paid for 4 days and we are settled in for a nice relaxing time.

We had to move…

The next morning I was walking around the site and noticed that they had put a reserved sign on the post that covered the last 2 days we had already paid for.  What is that all about.  There was no reservation sign on the post when I posted our receipt.  I went down and talked to the host who said there was a huge group of kids coming on the 9th and 10th but I could stay in that site tonight.

I decided I better move now rather then later so I piled everything back into the rig and moved.  I had planned on moving to a particular site that seemed fairly level, but after moving there, I realized I wouldn’t have room for the toad (Billy).

Then it started to hail and thunder like crazy.  I have never seen snow hail like I did up here.  I finally found a good spot just when it finished storming.

I took a couple pics of the sand dunes as well.  Yes those are sand dunes and not snow dunes.

Just after I got moved we had a visitor.  Chica didn’t know what to think of it even though I have told her about all the bears and big animals they have up here.  It is not a great pic as it was taken through my screen.

Went for a walk…

The weather cleared up and I decided we need to go for a walk.  I dressed Chica in her stylish best and we hit the road.  She hates her coat, but puts up with it.

Love this place…

I really love this park.  It has some fantastic scenery.  I just wish I was here a bit later in the season.  There are some awesome 4WD trails some leading as high as 13,000 feet, but I am afraid that the creeks are running too high for me to chance it.  I am thinking of going to Zapata Falls which is off a dirt road and a short hike.  Stay tuned!

In the meantime this is my backyard.  Life is good!