A Tale of Two Nomads

Boyd Lake As well as the two state parks in Denver, we spent a week up at Boyd Lake State Park. This would give us the opportunity to paddle board on the lake (which was harder than usual with the wake boarders screaming past). We also celebrated my 40th birthday by visiting some breweries in nearby Loveland. Our RV site was "electric only" so it gave us practice using less water and sewer. All showers and most toilet runs were to the campground bathrooms. !!Campground Showers This lead to a good learning experience. In this state park, you pay for showers (75c for 3 minutes, then 25c per minute after). Julia (surprisingly) was able to get her shower all done in less than 3 mins. Pauls first attempt at showering was a little comical. After inserting the 75c in to start the water, rinse, and lather up pretty good the water stopped. Adding an additional quarter doesn't add another minute. That "25c per minute thereafter" needs to be inserted while the...

Finally we were free. The house was rented, Paul completed his citizenship, everything we wanted to hang on to was in storage. We could finally get on the road. But where to first? Denver, Colorado is pretty much in the middle of the country. Amazing destinations can be found in all four directions. We could go west into the mountains and towards the Pacific ocean. South would take us to the Gulf. East to the Appalachians and the big cities (after a fair few cornfields of course). We hadn’t even got moving and we ran into our first challenge of RV life (in fact to this day it is still our number one challenge!) - Where to go next? To help us choose our route we decided to look further ahead on our calendar. Two weeks from now we have a first birthday party in St Louis we wanted to attend. But we didn’t really want to spend two weeks driving through the cornfields of Kansas. So with winter approaching we decided to take advantage of the last few weeks of summer and head north. We could ...