Short drive today, so we don’t worry too much about rushing out. Oops. We barely make it out by the 11:00 check-out time. Well, ok, I was about three minutes late getting out. We hit the road and head out across Colorado. Of course, there’s road construction, but it does not delay us much. We did make one unscheduled stop in the middle of nowhere, where Barri saw a couple of campers like ours at an RV dealership, and we decided to stop and check them out. Not exactly like ours, but very similar – two were tent trailers with a cargo area, the third was a hard-side with a front cargo area. Cool stuff. We got the guy’s info and hit the road. Why? Well, several folks have asked us about it, so we figure we’ll get cards of places that have them, so if folks are serious about finding one, we can point them in the right direction. They’re not that easy to find!

Anyway, we hit Crested Butte at about three in the afternoon, Jimmy came out to greet us and let me know where he wanted me to park The Beast. It’s going to be nice to sleep in real bed. Well, it’s not that the bed itself is uncomfortable, the issue is the sheets. RVs use non-standard bed sizes, so sheets for a real bed do not work, as a rule. Yes, a very small number of RVs, all of them high-end ones, actually use standard bed sizes, but what 90% (my guess) of RVers have to sleep in are non-standard beds, and regular sheets don’t fit, so you typically end up either with sheets that are too small, so the bottom sheet pops off the mattress in the middle of the night, and you’re on bare mattress, OR the sheets are too big, and even though it may fit in one direction, it’s waaay loose in the other direction, and you get wrapped up in the bottom sheet as you sleep, waking up like a mummy. Ok, I exaggerate, but it’s still incredibly irritating.

Oh, yeah – Crested Butte! Jimmy took us out to dinner to an outstanding Oriental restaurant called Ryce – SUPERB food! I see it in my future! And what did it do while we were there? IT RAINED! Of course it did! I have proof:

And I got the other end of that rainbow also – it would not all fit on my phone in one shot:

Oh, how I wish I’d had a real camera in my hands!

Oh, well – we’re here, and we’re going to try like hell to get some rides in. We’ll see! I have to try and climatize to the altitude, it’s almost 9,000 feet and we’ve only been around 5,000 recently, so it’ll take some getting used to. But I’m looking forward to it!