Since our trip from Lenexa, Kansas to Silt, Colorado would take us right past Denver, Betty and I had to take the opportunity to stop and see our son, Adam, and daughter-in-law, Melissa. We had booked an RV spot in Bear Creek Lake City Park in Lakewood, Colorado which turned out to be one of the nicest campgrounds we stayed in during our two years of RV travel.
Unfortunately we got to stay for only one night instead of three due to two late-April snow storms. The first storm came rolling in just as we were approaching the Kansas / Colorado border with the potential for six inches of snow. We made campground reservations on the fly, advised Bear Creek we would be arriving later than planned, and hunkered down for two nights.
We arrived in Lakewood mid-day and liked the campground so much that we booked a second night - but never got to use it .
Adam drove out to the campground to see our home-on-wheels then we went back to his place for dinner with him, Melissa, and out grand-kitties. We made plans for a longer visit the next day.On the drive back to our RV the weather service started calling for temperatures to drop from seventy-two degrees to seventeen degrees.
We woke in the morning to sunshine and thought the weather service had messed up. But while we were eating breakfast, the mountain that filled the view out of our window - disappeared. Fog literally poured down from the higher elevations as the air cooled at an astonishing rate. And now there was snow in the forecast again. Potentially a great deal of it.
We were learning that living in an RV came with many variables and the ability to handle spur-of-the-moment changes in plans.
We quickly closed up the RV, hooked up to the truck, and hurried out of town.
It was the first - and only - time we left a campground with less than a full tank of fuel.
You'll find out why in the next installment.
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