Month: July 2016

Upon arriving in CO, we knew we were going to park outside of the Aqua Hot building for our class, so we wanted to try to boondock somewhere for a day or 2. We drove straight to our friend Dave’s house and parked in the school parking lot across the street. Since it was a Friday night we figured we would be pretty safe. To say the least, they were surprised to see this big rig pull past their house. We all went to dinner at a great bbq place. Visited for a few.

 

He has one dog that is getting pretty old now but holding his own. Since Jen had lived with Dave for a short time, we sent her pics.  

 

They happen to be dog sitting Vicki’s parent’s dog. He was happy to have someone to play with, Sadie. They took him home the next day, but we all still visited until we drove over to the parking lot to await our class.

Our class was on repairing the Aqua Hot units but to learn how they worked. While it is basically a small version of an oil fired water heater and boiler, Rob was all too familiar with most of it and I knew pretty much nothing. So you understand, this little device sits in one of the bays in the belly of the RV. It provides hot water – constantly, which is pretty awesome. It also provides heat for us in the cold weather. It can not do both at the same time and the water takes first place. The unit is run by the same diesel that runs our motor and generator.

After the leaving, we went on to visit our friends from Longmont. We parked at the county Fairgrounds Campground – which is a 1st come, 1st parked place with no reservations. You can only park there a max of 14 days in a calendar year, They have water and electric hook-ups, but the sewer you had to do at their dump. So as we had dry camped a little before getting here, we felt it was best to empty out what we had in our holding tanks before parking for our 14 days. We had found a spot we wanted and I left the car parked in it for safe keeping as there were only 8 longer pull-throughs.

Sadie enjoyed all the grass to lay in as well as all the attention she was getting from everyone. 

 

 

We saw various friends, went to church a few times, out to eat lots of times while visiting as well as some home cooked meals. All in all, Rob & I really felt at home there in CO, warm welcoming place – almost didn’t want to leave.

But the adventure must continue.

 

 

We just didn’t get enough of a dear friend and family down in UT so we went and parked on a street just near their house. Our original plan was to visit for one, maybe 2 nights, but as plans go – they changed. While we were there I was talking about getting a SSD for the tower computer in the trailer. Said friend had knowledge of such things and I asked his suggestions. Well next thing I knew, my tower was picked up from outside the front porch, about 11pm. Whisked off and returned with SSD as well as the updated windows and office. I spent a little time doing some other updates and downloads of needed programs while I could be wired into someone else’s internet! WOW – so the 4 day or so trip was well worth it. And the view wasn’t all that bad either. 

Rob, of course, decided to give a hand with meal preps, when we didn’t go out, and breakfast was a hit for several mornings! They all said we could gladly stay longer but were in fear of gaining excess poundage – as were we. The calories don’t count when you are on vacation like last week.

There was a great back yard for Sadie to hang out in occasionally with the other 2 outside dogs. She also liked being inside with the smaller puppy dog and the little girl in the family – since she loves kids. 

Once we moved on, we took the suggested route northward which we enjoyed, and then “put up the sails and let the wind blow us eastward across WY” as Rob told it. We were headed for Longmont CO where we had a class to do and then spend time visiting all our old friends from when we lived there.

We were excited to be here. We arrived before most of the bronco group. In fact, there was a car show going on in town, with a few parked at the campground we were at. So we went downtown and Rob found a few interesting ones he liked.  He called them Rat Rods.

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was one person next to us that was there for both!

 

It was great seeing all the broncos and the people that had them. We went on a few rides with borrowed seats.  Seemed like our friend, trail leader, had the misfits of broncos on his trails. The tail gunner did get a little bored – especially since his rig is built to go harder and faster!

The last trail we went on was new to us. We went out to “Top of the World”. Some people were a little daring with their poses!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall it was a great visit with good memories.