Not exactly an uneventful day :(

I drove most of the way to Fruita from Montrose and Gary liked to call part of my driving the RV rodeo!  It was a little wild every once in a while--maybe a turn or two a little faster than I should have and one pretty quick stop.  This resulted in quite a bit of noise in the RV as a number of things "shifted" around in the cupboards!  Needless to say, we were very, very careful when opening all the doors in the RV after we landed.

We decided to take a chance and see if we could stay at the state park campground, James M. Robb Colorado River State Park which is located right on ... you guessed it ... the Colorado River.

Here's the Colorado River.

We were able to get their last full hook-up site--available for only one night.  I mean, we are way off season, and that's all that was available.  We think it's because the weather is so beautiful right now and this is a vacation destination for outdoorsy people--especially mountain bikers.  They flock to this area to ride through the Monument.  Just about everyone had mountain bikes in their campsites. And they're having some big Monument Ride on November 1st.  I bet that will bring in a humongous number of bikers!

This is probably one of the nicest state campgrounds we have ever stayed in all our travels throughout the western U.S.  The sites were very roomy, had excellent cement pads for your RV, cement covered patio, full hook-ups, a lot of room between your neighbors, far enough off the road where highway noise was not an issue, and closely located to the Fruita park entrance.  Check out our site with the fabulous fall foliage.

 

Here's a bonafied bunny trail ... Nancy and Brindley, you think Puyallup has a weird street numbering system?  Get a load of this street sign?  Not only did they have alphabet streets with 1/2's and 3/4's but they also had numbered streets with 1/2's and 3/4's!  So they had signs that said 24-1/2 Road!

Now, let's get back to why our day was not uneventful.  We pulled the RV into the site and Gary decided I needed to back it up (Jeep still attached).  Well, he wanted me to back it up too much and I'm no expert in that arena so the Jeep wheels got turned too much kind of locking them into place.  So, Gary got the key to start the Jeep but it was dead, dead, dead ... as a door nail.  The battery died without any notification (how rude is that?).  I'm not going to bore you with all the details on what it took for us to unhook the Jeep from the RV but it wasn't pretty.  We had one of the campground rangers give us a jump, found a Batteries Plus store in Grand Junction, took off and went straight there to replace that old battery.

An exciting sighting happened on our way.  There it was on the side of the road ...

It has been almost a year since we've seen a Sprouts store and boy did we get excited.  We were very, very happy to have the opportunity to shop there.  You would have thought we were two kids in a candy store the way we were acting walking up and down the aisles.  They had our favorite Cowboy Burgers (burgers laced with bacon, cheddar cheese and jalapeno peppers) which we got for dinner. They had so many other things we really like; what a treat it was to shop there.

As I told you in the beginning of this blog--we love this campground, and now I'm going to show you some of the other reasons why we liked it so much.  First there were so many beautiful trees glowing in gold.

 

Second, they have two small "lakes" (well, ponds really) on the property.  This first one used to be a swimming lake but about six years ago the health department stepped in and posted a "NO SWIMMING" sign--the lake was closed due to an e-coli infestation.  They said it was because it has no source of fresh water making the water stagnant ... we think maybe it was filled with too much goose poop, too!

The second lake was a fishing pond. I caught it with this beautiful fall foliage reflection.

That evening we had a BBQ and fire.  The weather "demanded" that we do the fire!  It was a beautiful evening and we were celebrating our Sprouts discovery with Cowboy Burgers and corn-on-cob on the barbie.  Oh, did I forget to mention celebrating with beer and wine, too?

 

Tomorrow begins our Colorado National Monument adventure and we can't wait to see what beauty awaits us.

Psalms 29:7-9

The voice of the LORD hews out flames of fire. The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.  The voice of the LORD makes the deer to calve and strips the forests bare; and in His temple everything says, "Glory!"