Campin' Colorado

Well we camped as much in Utah as in Colorado, the title just sounds better like that.

Dave, Mads and Me were planning our trip to see Colorado, but we ended up seeing not only Colorado but also Utah. When Dave was explaining us what he wanted to show us it went something like this: "we can see this... oh, this we have to see as well. OH WE CAN'T MISS THIS PLACE. LET'S GRAB OUR BAGS AND JUST SEE EVERYTHING," with his eyes lighting as a child seeing the Easter Bunny.

So what started off early with our bags and Abby Road (one of the dogs) and drove south to see the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado. We sadly left Lori behind who had to work.. On the way south we drove past beautiful snow capped mountains on long roads seemingly never to end. Dave drove for ages and ages, and when we finally came to the location he had driven for up to 10 hours! Just before we reached the Sand Dunes we stopped to look at a waterfall. There was no waterfall - it was frozen instead what might have made it even more beautiful We could walk straight under it, and see how the water iced right where the water usually was streaming down during the summer.

When we arrived to the Sand Dunes we made our camp and me and Mads started to walk towards the Sand Dunes. The Sand Dunes is a big strange place, where the sand in the middle of nowhere gathers by the wind and creates these massive hills (mountains if you're living in Denmark) which seems more like the Sahara dessert than anything else. It took Mads and me 1,5 hours to reach to the top, which was very, very tough as we didn't only have the sand to climb up but also some massive winds.

We brought some frisbees with us which we used downhill when we had the tail wind and the pleasure of running down the hills... That night we camped and it was freezing, below 0 Celsius.

We traveled to Utah the next day, once again with Dave doing his marathon driving. We were amazed once we reached Utah, as it wasn't the Utah we knew of from Salt Lake City. It was filled with these big rock formations in the southern part. We camped close to these rock formations and the next day we were waiting for the Arches National Park. this night it wasn't as cold as the previous night!

Arches was a beautiful National Park, which was filled with - not only Arches - but huge rocks which you could climb and view beautiful scenarios from. We spent 2-3 hours here and saw various locations. We then had to head back home, with another big car journey in front of us. The long rides didn't matter as we had good company and great music the whole trip.

When we came back to the house we spent some days with Lori and Dave and watched movies, played mini-golf, made a little trip to Boulder and just had a great time. The dogs and cats helped to the entertainment as well, especially little Eleanor who just was one big Duracell battery!!!! Mads left while I was here, as he went to New York and after wards back to Denmark. Lori and Dave held a big BBQ the day after he left (not because of he left of course) and I got to learn how to play horse shoe. Great Success!! Happy, happy times.

Forza Lazio!