Exploring the Rockies, part 2

My first summer in Colorado

I have told the story in earlier posts about settling in Colorado in a motorhome. My job was a Work-From-Home, requiring a trip to IBM’s Boulder, Colorado facility once a month. They required that I live within an hour’s drive. Since I was in a home on wheels, we tried living everywhere along the Front Range in RV parks and campgrounds from Golden to Loveland.

One of them is a lodge and campground in the foothills above Denver called Chief Hosa. You can see the Continental Divide from there:

Mountains of the Continental Divide, seen from Genesee Mountain.

We’d spend a couple of weeks there, move on, come back for another two weeks, and so forth. We’d go up north to Loveland and explore Rocky Mountain National Park:

Long’s Peak, a Fourteener, and others in Rocky Mountain National Park

The Big Thompson river and canyon, on the road to RMNP

We went up to the High Country in the Jeep and looked in awe at the Fourteeners:

Grays Peak, left and Torreys Peak, right. Both are Fourteeners

Mount Evans, another Fourteener, same viewpoint

A wide view from the same viewpoint, different day:

The view south from Mt. Pisgah

And another spot not far away:

A meadow in the Rocky Mountains

It was like paradise. Finally, we settled in an RV park above Central City, Colorado, 9500 feet above sea level. Here’s a view of the town (look among the trees in the center of the photo) and the valley it’s nestled in, as seen from the RV park:

Central City, Colorado as seen from the KOA RV park above town

Yes, it was paradise. At least, until winter came.