Awake: 5:43am Temp 47 sleep 7+04 sunny overnight @ Goodland, Kansas.
Last night I ran our generator (4) hrs for cooking, washing dishes, heating water, watching movie, etc; this morning, (3) hrs.
@ 7:30am, Kathy walks over to the Wal-Mart store & checks for some micro-fiber & thread; she finds neither. Meanwhile, I clean many smashed bugs from our windshield.
We leave Goodland @ 9:03am. 100 miles west on I-70, we stop @ the smallest Flying “J” fuel stop ever; only (4) stalls. Top off our tank with 153 gal @ $3.03 per gal.
We continue on I-70 until just after Limon & then follow the scenic State road-86 to Castle Rock & I-25. There was little traffic on 86 with a lot of up & down hills & curves. Scenic….yes, but once is enough.
Just before joining I-25, I made a wrong turn & had to find a turn-around place without detaching our tow car to get back on track. That seemed to have started our dummying up phase; for the next (2) hrs, we just had difficulty finding & deciding on whether we should sign up & stay in the campground we originally planed on.
For example: the entrance to Chatfield State Park is (12 ft 4 inches), our coach height is (13 ft 2 inches); another (180 degree turn). In our attempt to find the other entrance, we drove to & parked in the Army Corp of Engineers parking lot; another (180 degree turn). Chatfield State Park nickel-dimes campers & charges for every vehicle, in addition to the camping fee, each vehicle, motorhome included, is charged a daily fee. To avoid the daily fee we chose to buy an annual state park pass good for admission to any CO state park for one year ending Dec. 31st of that year. That’s a good deal for someone who buys it at the beginning of the year and plans to use several state parks; we were charged the full pass price even though there is less than 3 months left, but it was a way for us to save a few dollars. Though we don’t need to use their showers, we did observe that they are pay showers, 3 min. of water for 50 cents.
We decide to stay & sign up for a week; next time, we’ll seriously consider our ole Flying Saucer RV Park….if they are still in business. This is a very nice park however & well planned; if one can ignore all those little extra charges they sneak in, you’ll love it.
We arrive @ our campsite around 2:45pm. 1st on the list to do: call Katrina & leave a message.
Today’s travel: 220 miles 4+45 time 42 gal used 5.3 mpg 46.3 avg speed.
Just across the field from our campsite, there is an active model airplane flying club & all different types of aircraft are flying. I talk Kathy into checking it out & spend about (40) min talking to one of the guys about his club activities.
Waiting for Katrina to return our call, we go on a little grocery shopping trek to Costco & begin stocking up on some good stuff.
Katrina returns our call around 6:00 pm. She wanted to finish her thesis for her Masters program before we arrived in town & now she has. We discuss visiting her tonight but don’t have info on the campground’s gate closings; the signs say 10:00 pm but are they enforced? We make plans to visit tomorrow.
Dinner: Leftover beef with brown rice, corn off the cob, mixed salad & toast.
Finish watching the movie: “The Lady from Shanghai” with Rita Hayworth, Orson Wells, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, etc. The camera’s the star of this offbeat thriller, with the cast incidental in bizarre murder mystery about an Irish adventurer (Wells) who joins seductive Hayworth & her husband (Sloane) on a Pacific cruise. The famous hall of mirrors climax is riveting. 1948. For it’s time, the touring scenes are nearly priceless, plus the story line is not too shabby as well.
Start watching another movie: “Fear Strikes Out.”
High travel temp=78 Lights out: 11:22pm
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