A short drive up the mountain Beuna Vista, Colorado, past a horrific looking commercial host spring resort, is the town of St Elmo, the “most original ghost town in Colorado” (their words, not mine), founded in 1880. It is also touted as Colorado’s “best preserved” ghost town, and while that...
Well, we finally did it. We went backpacking after a long time talking and dreaming about it. With a scheduled trip for the Memorial Day weekend already planned, we set out to pick up all the gear we needed while being parked in the metro area. We ran all over...
Sure, most people would consider our nomadic lifestyle as already a vacation, and the low-stress life of living full time on the road does not necessarily beckon us to take a dedicated vacation or anything. But we did anyway, a reverse-vacation – from nomad to sitting still – a Noitacav....
After four straight weeks of camping in the wild, a planned stop in civilization in what I now consider my home town; Longmont, Colorado. Longmont has been on the schedule for a long time, primarily because my son turn’s 18 years old this weekend, and graduates high school later this...
Before leaving Rabbit Valley, the weather finally turned in our favor and we got out for the one major hike I wanted to do in the area; McDonald Creek, and Moose was able to join us. With the brisk morning air, and a mix of shade and sunlight on the...
As luck would have it, I knew a place to spend the week before making the leap over the Rocky Mountains. Rabbit Valley BLM is a large area of land straddling the Utah and Colorado state line. I have over-nighted here a few times in the past, but this time...
The original plan was to stay two weeks in the Zion National Park area, but family issues in Colorado have somewhat expedited our arrival. Although not super urgent, that need may arise at any moment, so a closer proximity to Colorado led us to take off a week early and...
It is all about the company you keep and this day only backs that argument up. When offered to accompany a cocktail aficionado to where that person has been looking forward to going for some time, you accept. I did, and rewarded I was. Dram Apothecary was the destination, and...
Lookout Mountain watches over our camp in Golden, Colorado. Just up that mountain (if you can dodge all the bicyclists along the way) is the William F Cody (aka Buffalo Bill) grave and Museum. Kerri and I agreed that when Buffalo Bill wished for his body to be buried here...
In an attempt to give Kerri some time to actually work without me distracting her, I got out to visit the Colorado Railroad Museum just 2 miles away from the RV park. These are the little things that I would not normally do, but for when I have all the...
