Maroon Bells Wilderness

After we departed Rocky Mountain National Park, we stopped at Hot Sulfur Springs, where Elena spent several hours in the various natural hot springs pools. Bebop and I walked down to the Colorado Rive, which was shallow enough to walk across. We camped that night on Wolford Lake. The next morning we...

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Rocky Mountain National Park

We elected to spend five nights at Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP), as we haven't been here in about 17 years. We booked three nights at Glacier Basin Campground in RMNP, one night at Mary's Lake in Estes Park, and one night in Aspenglen Campground back in the park. Mary's Lake was our amenities...

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Colorado's Front Range

This will be a catch-up post covering a few days along the front range in Colorado. We left off at Trinidad Lake in Colorado. The following day we were headed to Lake Pueblo to camp. An old friend suggested we detour past Bishop Castle in the mountains southwest of Pueblo, CO. So we did. I will save...

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Westward and Upward

We departed DFW at noon on Tue, July 11th. Elena and I had to dodge morning rain showers to get the van loaded up, but once we got west of Denton, the sun broke through with a vengeance. We spent several hours driving west in 105 degree F temperatures with the sun beating on us through the front window....

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