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Mt Elbert Forebay
After a quick night at Clear Creek Reservoir, we headed back to the Twin Lakes area to find a more scenic campsite. By noon on Sunday, most of the campers had packed up and left. Despite numerous available campsites, we were hoping to take the place of the Sprinter van who had beat us to a spot by mere seconds around sunset the night before. When we arrived to the location, we were disappointed to see the Sprinter van still parked in the site. We pulled into a gravel lot just down the road. It had several rough dirt roads leading to additional campsites, but two RV’s occupied what seemed…
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Blue Mesa
Blue Mesa Recreation Ranch was our first big destination in Colorado. It is full hookup RV park near Gunnison, Colorado and was a recent addition to Thousand Trails southwest region. It was a great place to relax and not have yo think so much about power and water. Gunnison was also a central point where old friends of ours were hunting. It gave us the opportunity to meet up and spend a few days hanging out.
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Rabbit Valley
We stopped at a BLM campground near Fruita, CO, just past the border from Utah.
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DIY Solar
As part of our new RVing lifestyle, we really wanted the ability to get off-grid and dry camp. On the other hand, we needed a reliable source of AC power for the computers and internet we use for work, but the idea of running a generator for eight hours a day was out of the question. The solution was to add solar panels to the roof of the RV and an all-in-one power station capable of solar charging, high wattage AC output, and enough battery storage to get us through the day.
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