Camper day 1

The agravation of waiting for an hour for someone who's late, after a short night sleep is amazing.
The guy appolagised and was realy helpful though, giving us pointers bout campgrounds and whereabouts.
After a giga shopping and another hour wait for new wires to be changed, I hooked up gps and ipod and we finally started our journey.

Driving a 10 mt camper is something else. That thing is big, but with a set of good side mirrors and a rear camera, driving it turned out to be ok.
It's the getting used to the width of it as trucks are passing you on each side that is hard and scary.

We found a good spot at a lake between Loveland and Horsetooth, (there are a couple of original names for you), to camp out our first night.

I forgot the fishing rod I bought from Maarten so we went and bought a new one, kids excited, while Val organised the cupboards.
Now I need to mention this is another Val then the one I know.
Since we left that woman is so organised it even scares me.
There supposed to be fish in the lake but we stopped after reeling in a crayfish (ecrevisse).
Tried to make a fire but couldnt find dry wood, early in bed.

It's about 2am I can't sleep, so decided to sit outside the camper in the new camping seats we bought. The moon has left it's fullnes since a day or four and is giving enough light for me to see the lake, and the ouline of the mountains surrounding it there are a zillion stars in the sky, and a bunch of guys with an English accent making far to much noise. The light in their tent just turned off.

It's been a while since I've been so close to nature, it's been a while since I've been so far away from things to do, it seems it's been a while since I've taking the time to be. I had forgotten about Nature with a big 'N'.

My mind has stopped to race tonight sitting here under the stars.

I'll put outsome pics assoon as we got wifi capabilities.