May 28th - Steamboat Springs, CO

Steamboat Springs - looks a bit Swiss!

In the morning it was quite chilly again – and we saw some little deer prints in the snow – cute! We drove back through Edwards and dropped off a book at Jacki’s, used her internet hehe, then continued north through Colorado. Quite a lot of windy roads zig-zagging over large hills. Lots of crazy people overtaking on blind corners, etc. and nearly wiping out motorbikes and trucks turning onto narrow roads. A big day for poor Betsey Blue, who struggled quite a lot up an absolute killer hill! The campgrounds were still completely snowed under as we climbed 4000 feet in 15 miles. We had to stop every couple of miles, to let her cool down. Then finally we gave up and drove back down the mountain and into Steamboat Springs – Will’s nerves were a little frayed!! That night we stayed at the Steamboat Springs RV Park. There were kids in these low seated bicycles zipping around everywhere and yelling and milling around. Enough to put us off kids. The SHOWERS = bliss! Our campspot was on the other side of a really full river and we could see there had been flooding. Still quite a few sandbags lying around. Back behind us there were some kids with lighter fluid, squirting it on their fire – how they didn’t accidentally ignite themselves, we didn’t know, but we watched them with amusement!

With our dying bananas (at 52c a pound, we can’t waste them hehe), we tried out Andria’s camping idea of chocolate bananas, which she introduced us our last camping trip in Oz at Lake Ararat. Delish!