John Martin Reservoir — Camping Trip #4 – And Bents Old Fort

Welcome to the Southeastern side of Colorado in a June that turned hot quickly. John Martin Reservoir is a HUGE body of water with tons of birds and tons of sun.  I really did enjoy hearing all of the calls of the birds that I was not familiar with and the reservoir is extremely popular with birders due to the diversity of species.  There were lots of people with jet skis and boats.  This is clearly an area for water toys! It hovered in the high 90’s, low 100’s while…

The Trip of Firsts: First RV Camping Trip

There always has to be a First RV Camping Trip……  Here’s the story of ours. We bought her in a snow storm and Mother Nature, being the bitch that she is, is determined to make us test her in a snow storm. We booked out April 15th and April 22nd to be our two, close to home with full hook up, test runs.  And Mother Nature just laughed and laughed. The weekend of April 8th was lovely with the entire weekend in the mid 70’s, bright Colorado sunshine. The weekend…