Thursday August 25, 2011

We were up by 7 and ready to go by 8:15.  It's over 550 miles to Fun Valley, so today I planned to get as far as La Junta, CO.  The only RV park listed in was a KOA.  We stopped for pictures at the Kansas/Colorado border.  There was a nearby cache, I thought it would be my first cache in Colorado this year.  Turns out the cache was in Kansas.  Because of the heat we opted to stay at the KOA for the 50 amp hookup.  The drive from Wichita to La Junta was 347 miles.

The last KOA we stayed at was in 2002, the Lost Hills KOA on I-5 near Bakersfield, CA.  After that experience we decided not to stay at any more KOAs, Keep On Adding.  We are now sorry we went against that decision.  This KOA is several steps below the Lost Hills one.  The sites were too short to leave the towed vehicle hooked up, and very close together.  The roads were extremely dusty, we had to drive around twice because the first site we were assigned to was occupied.  Several trees had branches hanging down far enough to drag on the roof of the coach.  Our vow to never stay at a KOA is renewed.  We will never come here again.
As it turns out the road we planned to take to South Fork is closed and we have to detour to Pueblo.  If we had known that we had a choice of four RV Parks we could have stayed there.
Since the Jeep was already unhooked I decided to grab a couple of caches before supper.  We had left overs.  After some TV and computer time we called it a night,