This week we’re staying at Boyd Lake State Park in Loveland. When planning our route through Colorado this wasn’t our first, second, or even third choice for a place to stay in this area. We really wanted to stay in Fort Collins because it sounded like a fun, hip college town with an interesting downtown area. Unfortunately the options for RV parks and campgrounds in Fort Collins are kind of limited. There was the Horsetooth Reservoir which sounded nice, but was completely booked for the dates we wanted to stay, a KOA right in town, which goes against our “absolutely no KOA” policy (too pricy and kid oriented for us), or there were a number of nice sounding small campgrounds 30 minutes or more north and west of town. Unfortunately, the cell coverage at these places was either weak or non-existent. So that’s how we ended up 30 minutes south of Fort Collins at a Boyd Lake State Park in the middle of suburban Loveland.
I am struggling to come up with a way to describe Loveland. The first word that comes to mind is “meh”. Meaning not good, not bad, nothing special, but nothing horrible either. Basically Loveland is a suburb of a large metropolitan city filled with lots of chain stores, restaurants and cookies cutter developments This is this kind of town where I would never choose to live long term, but for a one week stay it will do. After spending so long in small mountain towns, the shopping has been convenient as we can pretty much buy anything we want within a 10 mile radius. I would probably describe the campground in the same way. Not bad, not good- just okay. The sites are large with a gravel sitting area for the picnic table and grill, and grassy strip between sites. There are a good amount of trees, but we ended up with a site that doesn’t have any trees near enough to provide us with shade. Some sites have water views. Ours has what I would call a partial view.
然后是湖。这是一个很大,漂亮的湖泊,有很多草,沿岸衬有沼泽的植物。
The thing about this lake is that its best admired from afar. Why? Because starting about four feet from the water is a thick layer of slippery, flip-flop gobbling clay-like mud that will cause you (okay me) to squeal in disgust as you try unsuccessfully to remove yourself from this muddy mess. The mud has also turned the water, at least near the shore, an unappealing murky color.
似乎并不是每个人都在湖上分享我的意见,因为我们看到很多人在海岸上闲逛,甚至还有一些勇敢的鞋底(也许他们喜欢脚趾之间的泥浆感觉?)。我想喜欢这个湖,我真的做到了。这个星期几乎每天,我都尽职尽责地将Phineas带到岸上,并鼓励他在泥泞的泥泞中涉水,以使他的身体在浅墨水中湿润。It never won me over though, and one day I had a particularly unsettling experience when I had to brave the mud to retrieve the frisbee that our old boy refused to retrieve on his own (he’s gotten very disagreeable lately- we call it his old man syndrome) and my flip flop actually broke when I tried to lift my foot out of the sticky mud. After that I was pretty much done with the lake.
除此之外,本周没有什么可说的。这是非常低调的,没有巨大的徒步旅行或冒险。这对我们来说是一个不错的变化。因此,我们经常到达如此出色的地方,尽可能多地尝试体验几乎是压倒性的。这里没有问题。这并不是说这里没有什么可做的。实际上,在短暂的驱动器中实际上有大量的远足。我们选择不采取的短暂驱动器。取而代之的是,我们大部分时间都花在营地工作,清洁,烹饪,在自行车道上行走,偶尔去城镇旅行。
昨晚,当我们开车去柯林斯堡(Fort Collins)在当地的一家啤酒厂过夜时,我们确实有一点兴奋。如果您是啤酒厂,柯林斯堡有很多选择。经过一番研究,我们选择了Mayor of Old Town主要吸引力是他们掌上的100杯啤酒。他们提供的许多啤酒是科罗拉多州本地人的,甚至来自柯林斯堡的啤酒厂也有很多。我们每个人都尝试了两种不同的啤酒,并从他们简单而美味的菜单上尝试了一些东西。一切都很棒,这是昨晚在科罗拉多州外出的绝佳选择。
明天我们离开科罗拉多州,向北穿过内布拉斯加州,过夜,然后进入南达科他州,下周将在那里度过。我毫不怀疑这个周末会有更多的草田图片。
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希望您对我们的位置不会感到“嗯”!我们的财产没有湖泊,但靠近其中的一堆。它不是郁郁葱葱,没有方便。从好的方面来说,它是免费的,您的朋友在这里!
I am sure we won’t be disappointed. After all, we’ll have you guys to entertain us nightly right? :)
您遵循的路线几乎与我们相同的路线,只有我们找不到在柯林斯堡地区住宿的地方,所以我们在洛夫兰·沃尔玛(Loveland Walmart)。我们现在正在SD获得注册和许可等,并将一直待到8月底。我们可能会在这里遇到你!我们在Happy Holiday RV公园找到了一份工作训练工作。黑山地区有很多事情要做。
我们一直在SD的温泉中呆着。认为那里可能更安静。我们将待一个星期。
Sorry about the lake…yuck! But so glad Phineas had a great time! I like the relaxing part. We have been doing alot of that in Polson.
Safe travels.