Loveland, Colorado

We had a pleasant drive yesterday (Sunday) driving down Interstate 25 into Loveland, Colorado. We were sad when the Laramie Mountains disappeared, but then got excited when snow capped Rocky Mountains (actually the Medicine Bow Range of the Rockies) appeared and got bigger as we neared Loveland. Had a scary!!! ride about the last 20 minutes before reaching the campground - we had a bum address for this place and started up Big Thompson Canyon with hairpin turns, and quite knuckle biting until we could quickly turn around and head back down. Found the campground but almost took out the side of the RV when we turned into the place - the driveway was a 90 degree turn off the road and had to have Dave slam on the brakes at the last minute and back up and maneuver back out into the road and retry to get here. The great news is that we have a wonderful view out the back (living room) looking at the canyon and hearing a natural waterfall about 100 feet away. Beautiful! And quiet, and no worker-bees.

We have been out of cell service since we got here, we are in a canyon at the base of the Rocky Mountains and there just isn't any signal. As for email - we can tap into the campground's service but I don't want to sit outside at a picnic table at all hours trying to get on. Today we had to run into Loveland to do some shopping and we went to BestBuy and picked up a booster for internet, hoping that would solve the problem. We tried this before some months ago and it didn't work, but now! Fast and on-line without a problem. Yippee! Weird to not be in touch with people - where were we 10 years ago when internet email and cell phones were not that common? We will just live with the cell phone outage until we leave - really the first time this has happened. But we are ecstatic that we are really fast internet service.

Tomorrow we meet up with our niece Caryn, husband Scott, and their daughter Emily and her two children for the afternoon and grab dinner together. Wednesday we plan to spend the day with Emily and the kids.