Big Meadow

Bobbie took us up to the campground where they usually are camp hosting. Big Meadows is under construction and is scheduled to be open in 2013. It is gorgeous ! Bobbie and Jim’s site overlooks the lake and the entrance to the park (top left picture). What an awesome view they have ! The sites are huge, although it’s pretty apparent that the engineer/architect isn’t a camper. Some sites are set up to be double sites although there is no way you’d get two campers, with any slideouts, into the space. It would take two skinny campers to fit. They have the first loop done but have not done the second or third loop. This will certainly be a busy campground when it opens because it’s such a pretty setting and the sites are so nice. If our work schedule is still the same in 2013, we’ll be sure to book a site here when we pass through. Will be great to see it all done.
As you can see by the last picture, a recent storm brought down some trees in the park. They have a lot of dead trees, due to the pine beetle infestation so many of the trees have had to be cut down. This tree came down across two brand new picnic tables and snapped this table like a toothpick. There were trees down across the roads too…lots of clean-up ahead for the construction workers just so they can get around to do their work. Some of the sites will be by reservation only and the rest will be first come-first serve. Sure gonna be a popular place and one we want to spend our time in when we pass through here each year. If you get out this way (South Fork, Colorado) in 2013, be sure to check our this newly renovated park.

Dinner Out

We went out to dinner with Bobbie and Jim, to a new restaurant in South Fork called Silver Fork. Nice casual atmosphere…big open dining room.  Linda had the steak salad with Raspberry vinaigrette, which she said was really good.  Bobbie and I had the Breaded Tofu, which was so light and fluffy….very good. Jim had Buffalo Pot Roast with  mashed potatoes and roasted carrots. His meat was very, very tender and he really enjoyed it.

Good friends and good food…..

Colorado

We left Holbrook, AZ on Saturday morning at 7:00 a.m. and made a beeline for South Fork, Colorado. We were anxious to get up here to see our friends Bobbie and Jim so pee and gas stops were our only diversion...we got here around 6:00. Really pretty area....surrounded by mountains and clear mountain streams that are running pretty full from the snow melt. The evenings have gotten into the high 30's overnight so by morning I'm reachin' for another blanket on the bed or cranking the electric mattress pad up a notch...Brrrr...that compared to nights in the 70's in Holbrook. Daytime temps have been really nice....low 80's, high 70's. Loving it !

On the Friday before we left Arizona our water pressure started acting up. I went out and messed around, checking things but couldn't figure out what was going on. Since it was late in the day, I figured once I got up here I'd deal with it. Arrived here and same thing; turn on faucet. Water pressure ok for first second, then down to a trickle. Hmmm...Jim stopped down and couldn't resolve it between the two of us so they gave us name of mobile tech in area. We figure in meantime we could fill the fresh water tank and run the water pump to use that till he comes by. Well, that didn't work either. Turn the pump on and it blew water right out the city inlet. Now we were really perplexed. Matt, the tech came by this afternoon and turns out it was what Jim and I figured it to be....check valve on city inlet. When we had taken the three screws out to pull the check valve out, it wouldn't budge. It did the same thing with the tech so he's dismantling everything to try and figure out how to get access to backside of inlet. Finally he tries pulling again on inlet and it comes out. It had been getting hung up on the crimped thing on the water line....catching on side of opening. Duh !! Thank goodness he was really fair about his billing as it was a 5 minute job (that I could have done) that turned into an hour one, due to refastening, re-caulking, etc. I got a good re-caulking job out of it though on three different areas of the rig. Oh, the things we learn on this RV'ing adventure of ours ! Tis nice to have running water again although the showers here at Moon Valley are pretty awesome !

We are only 2 miles from Bobbie and Jim's campground so Moon Valley is really convenient for us to skip up to see them. We watched the race together yesterday and hope to have some outings in the coming week that we are here.