Hunkering down for the fourth
Kerri and I came here knowing we would be stationary for two full weeks, mainly due to the holiday weekend. Not only did we want to not have to find another camping spot on a big holiday weekend – which always proves to be stressful – we also wanted to stay out of the crowded, more obvious, places. Here, up on top of Rabbit Ears Pass just outside of Steamboat Springs, we sit through the holiday weekend on top of our very own mountain, far from the weekenders and holiday campers.
We have had the past few days of rain and low clouds surrounding us, which may have helped keep some of the locals away. A few made it out only to be pushed back into civilization by the rain and cold temperatures of being at 10,000 feet in the Colorado Rockys, even in July (historically the rainiest month of the year in Colorado).
We considered going into town over the weekend to take part in the festivities. A rodeo was features on both Friday and Saturday, but we have decided to just hang out and relax in the trailer for a change. In the one and a half years Kerri and I have been together, we have rarely just stayed at home and did “nothing”, so this weekend we did just that.
“Nothing” meant playing some video games actually. Kerri unpacked her XBox to finish Red Dead Redemption which would then free up the XBox to be sold (spring cleaning still going on), meanwhile I have found the time to play some games purchased in 2010 that I never got to play. It isn’t easy playing XBox of PC games when your life runs on 300 watts of solar, so on this day we stocked up on some extra gas, and the generator came out to support the extra power load.
