Arriving in Denver, Co

We were originally going to spend Saturday night in Wal-mart in Fort Collins, CO. After driving the 350 miles from Rapid City, we arrived to the dreaded, "NO overnight parking by city ordinance" sign, darn! We were starving, so we decided to leave the coach in the Wal-mart lot and take the car into town and find some sushi for dinner. When we got back to the coach, we looked up a campground (only 4 miles away), got a space, made the drive over (through the CSU campus, that was a treat!), plugged in to water and electric and called it a night, it was 9PM and we were done!

Check-out on Sunday morning was not until 11 AM. There was a Green Way right next to the campground. For those not familiar with them, Green Way's are multi-use trails, usually paved and they are everywhere in Colorado. We decided to get in an hour bike ride before making the 70 mile drive down to Denver.

We are staying in the Prospect RV Park in Wheat Ridge, a suburb of Denver. The park leaves a lot to be desired, but it is close to all the places we need to visit this week. There is also a green way right next to the campground for riding!

Our first order of business was to get in touch with Laura's Uncle Fred. He is from Michigan, but is Denver on a long term cell phone project.

Fred met us at the coach in the afternoon. We him the 'Grand Tour' of the coach. We spent time catching up. Fred suggested this great little family owned Mexican place in Golden for dinner, sounded good to us! He then took us on the 'Grand Tour' of Golden, which is a nice little town!

It was fun catching up with family. I'm sure Fred enjoyed the visit also, with his wife back in Michigan, kids and new Grand child in New York, we could all relate to missing family while out on the road!

-Rich-