Rocky Mountain National Park

We said our farewell’s to Uncle Guy and started the short journey north to the little town of Estes Park, Colorado. After doing a little last minute research, we found a nice campground with a great view that was only a mile from the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park. We arrived about lunch time and starting the typical setup of the camper, but today would be anything but typical. As Cheggy and I relaxed from our hard day of driving and watching our new TV with satellite, we heard a strange noise and soon found our camper without power. Not a problem we said, the breaker tripped on the electrical hookup or maybe the cord disconnected slightly…that has to be it. But after investigating the situation we discovered we had some serious electrical issues on our hands, the main power cord for everything in the camper had been pinched in the frame, shorted and burned through the bottom of the under liner. Needless to say after 6 hours of work, a trip to the local hardware store, a thunderstorm, and varying opinions from all of our surrounding neighbors we had the power up in running again. After all the excitement we called it an early night to rest up for our visit to the Rocky Mountain National Park

The next morning we woke up to the cool 42 degree weather and started the ascend to the beautiful scenery of the park. After a quick stop at the visitor center Cheggy and I were headed to a very unfamiliar destination… a hiking trail. I know what everyone is thinking, Cheggy and I hiking in the Colorado mountains? With our fancy new hiking boots and bottled water we attempted our first mountain hike, a 2.2 mile loop to visit some of the prettiest views in the country. Once we accomplished our daily feat we decided to view the rest of the park from the cab of the truck! It was an amazing drive with all different kinds of terrain throughout the park. Varying from alpine tundra where the temperature was 45 degrees with about 60-70 mph wind gusts to the valley lakes where the temperature was 70! We're headed north tomorrow to the great state of Wyoming!

-Potts

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