Evenin' Campers!
(Note: Written Monday night at
Stagecoach State Park... posed Tuesday morning from Steamboat Springs
where internet exists)
Well, it's now two nights without an
internet connection. Last night at Jackson Lake in the plains and
tonight at Stagecoach State Park outside of Steamboat Springs high in
the mountains.
What a drive today!
We started at 4,800 feet or so in
Orchard, Colorado about 50 miles Northeast of Denver. We took I-76
then I-70 to Denver then stayed on I-70 for 50 miles or so to Dillon,
Colorado. At our maximum, we were 11,013 feet which is the elevation
of the Eisenhower Tunnel on I-70. Truck, trailer, Mrs. C' and the two
dogs all took the hills in stride.
What views! I can't wait to post the
pics but we are two nights now without internet at the campground. We
connect at various points of the day... but when I'm driving. Sooner
or later I'll add pics back to my posts.
So we got to the campground and it is
rustic and Rocky Mountain beautiful. I'll save you the 1,000 words if
you'll wait for my pics.
When we arrived it was 82 but dry and
breezy enough to be comfortable if you were outside. In the trailer
the sun shone full force on one side. We turned on the fans, put ice
in the dog bowl, unhitched the truck, threw the dogs in the trailer
and headed for town! Did I say I put ice in the dog bowl? Oh yea.. oh
yea... I did say that.
So we headed to town for important
government-related business... to stop at the the post office.
Steamboat Springs is a ski town in winter (the ski area looms over
the little town.) and a tourist destination for mountain watchers and
mountain bikers and strange people of many sorts. Hey, did I mention
yesterday that they sell dope here... wait a minute... I think I was
told they call it weed now. It's important to know that to fit in
here in Colorado. So in Steamboat Springs there is this main street.
They call it Main St here. I'm good with that. Lot's of outdoorsy
stuff. There's also a rodeo venue right in the town of Steamboat
Springs.
Slightly off the main shopping areas
are the usual professional, commercial, etc. businesses. A tourist
map even showed where they sell the weed. Crazy, huh? Like tourists
are interested in visiting high security retail operations when they
visit Steamboat Springs. We drove by one and there wasn't even a line
to get in.
Seeing that the shops on Main St. sell
stuff we don't need at prices we won't pay, we headed to the grocery
store for some provisions. Then we headed back to the park, the
Airstream and the dogs who were, by the way, just fine and the
trailer was very livable especially if you had a bowl of ice water to
slurp from if you needed to.
We whipped up some dinner... made a
fire and sat around it humming John Denver tunes as the sun settled
then we watched the sky with all its colors slowly fade and the stars
came out. Colors, stars, the slow cooling of the day into chilly
evening, birds flying over the lake to their roosts for the night,
very nice, very peaceful. We had a couple of 'smores thanks to the
coals of the fire and headed inside to get away from the bugs which
were coming out for the night.
So, that's our day in Steamboat
Springs. It's not a college town, but we noticed the youth, vigor and
health of the people here. Upon reflection that may be less a
statement of the population of Steamboat Springs and more a statement
of the people we are used to seeing in Vero beach Florida. Either
way, Steamboat has that kind of youthful energy and I can see how it
can take you back to one's college days just with one visit.
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