Well, we had a slight change of plans due to COVID – 19. We decided to head out of Texas a little early and drive straight to Denver (with overnight stops, of course!).

We left Fun N Sun on Monday, April 20. Although we were ready to move on, it was really sad leaving. We made so many great friends there that we will really miss. We both had tears in our eyes as we pulled away!

Just a few of the many friends we will miss dearly!

Since it is about 1200 miles from San Benito to Denver, we had divided the trip up into about four and a half days. We made reservations ahead of time since we weren’t sure how many parks would be open due to COVID – 19.

The first day we drove to Kerrville, Texas and stayed at Kerrville KOA, a really nice, small KOA Journey. It was a beautiful evening and we enjoyed sitting outside and reading for a little while and we got to play with our drone a little.

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The next night we stayed at Burton RV in Lubbock, Texas. It was a very small park but it was great for an overnight stay. We even managed to get in a short bike ride to get some movement back into our legs!

Wednesday, we crossed into New Mexico and arrived in the mountains! We drove uphill for hours and stayed at Capulin Camp and RV Park, which is at 6800 feet elevation!! The truck did great with all the inclines, but we were a little concerned about the steep decline coming the next day.

Thursday, we got up early and drove to Pueblo KOA, about 2 hours outside of Denver. This was a really nice park and they even had Hunt Brothers Pizza! It was nice to skip cooking for one night, and have a pizza delivered! We were relieved to find out that the truck and trailer did great on the long, steep declines. We are definitely glad we had the hydraulic disk brake system put on prior to leaving Baltimore! This system absolutely proved it’s worth on this trip. (See our previous blog article)

Finally, on Friday, we drove the rest of the way to Chatfield State Park, our home for the next 4 months. We met with the Park Ranger we had been working with and still had enough time to get set up on our sight. This park is beautiful!!! More to come, but this is the view lookin’ out our front door (too bad Creedence liked to look out their back door!).