Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde is a great park to visit.  If you are in shape for high altitude hikes they have some great walking tours.  I liked driving to the overlooks and reading the self guided signs across the valley.  I can read and look over to the cliffs and see the wonders.

Daily Balloons and Trains

While in Pagosa Springs, Colo we learned they were having regular Balloon flights above the town.  The weather was very nice for early June. 

In Durango Colorado we took the Durango & Silverton train and had a nice ride.  Below we just got off in Silverton and below that is a shot of a water tank the train uses to refill its boiler while en-route.

Solar Battery Bank

The battery on the left is my house battery the three on the left are my solar banks 105 amp hrs each.  These three are hooked to a 1000 watt pure sine inverter and my CPAP and Oxygen Concentrator which help meet my Oxygen during sleep needs.  I have 2 one hundred watt panels on the roof and a controler next to the batteries mounted on the wall..

Osprey

Have an Osprey on the nest and one circling keeping other birds away.  This is by a lake in Utah.

Solar lights

I was very impressed with this solar light that I bought at WalMart.  It has all the solar on one end and you inflate it from about 1 inch to 5.  This gives you a lamp effect as you can see here. My son ran it for 6 hours and it was still going strong.  Not a bad back up light or a simple light for camping.

Counter Space

Counter space is never enough, here are some options we use.

In our Class C built in counter space is limited so most of the time we cook outside.  We also use the table and a TV tray when we must but prefer doing all or most cooking and prep outside.

I love picnic tables and have a 10x10 awning I set up if we are staying several days over it.   I can secure the awning and leave it up.  If a wind storm comes the most I would lose is an 80 dollar awning. 

Moving Water to RV

Dry camping can have its down falls.  Driving to get water or to dump the tanks.  Here is a photo of how I bring 6 gallons at a time of drinking water to the RV.  I can fill our RV with our on board electric pump.  It can take me up to 7 trips to fill the empty tanks with my one 6 gallon can.

I had an old light weight luggage hauler that I have put to use and saves my back as well.  Comes in very handy!