What does 3 stops for a puking Annie, 2 tire blowouts, and 1 dead battery all have in common? They all happened to us on our 4th o' July road trip. Not kidding here! We left Denver Thursday afternoon, only slightly behind schedule, made it all the way to Glenwood Canyon and then Annie puked all over herself. Minor setback, we thought. Cleaned up and changed clothes and off again! Made it another 60 miles and Annie threw up again. This time I was ready with a bowl to catch it in! As I was sitting in the front seat trying to catch all the puke, one of the camper tires blew out. Tim skillfully guided us to the shoulder and started changing the tire. The girls and I waited away from the truck, behind a guardrail...I was somewhat scared, cars and semi's going 70 are pretty intimidating! So back in the camper, this time we headed straight to the nearest Walgreens for some anti-nausea med. We also drove past a few tire stores but figured what were the odds that we would need another spare so we just drove on by... The rest of that day went by pretty uneventfully, we got to our campsite where we were meeting our friends Tim and Erin, at dusk and only 4 hours late. The next day the plan was for the 2 Tims to find us a camping spot close to Telluride were we would spend the rest of the weekend, and Erin, the girls and I were going straight to the town to check things out. Once we got there we hopped the shuttle to the center of town and checked out the 4th of July parade which consisted mainly of float loaded with the local kids squirting the tourist with super-soakers. Then we decided to grab some lunch and take the free gondola ride to the top of the ski resort. We ended up riding up with the Mayor of Mountain Village (the town at the top of the gondola) I don't know why that sounds impressive, he was a pretty boring guy. Anyways, here we are at the top of the mountain, and Erin gets a message from Tim - there's been another blowout! The camper spent the night up in some nice peaceful valley were there were no campsites, contrary to the map of campsites we had found online a few days earlier...We spent the night a few mountains down, in the land of the mosquito...lucky for us we had packed our tent! The next day the 2 Tim's set off on an epic journey to find tires...long story and another long day. We spent most of it in our tent, out of the rain and away from the mosquitoes. The next day, Tim and Erin decided they had had enough camping with us and took off. We got a camp site that night in Telluride Town Park. I thought finally! things are turning around! We set up the camper only to discover that the battery was dead...Oh well, it wasn't going to be too cold that night. As we settled around the table for a dinner of hotdogs, Tim raised his beer to a toast of nothing else going wrong. While we were toasting, Annie spilled her milk on me and Tim got up to get a paper towel and broke the paper towel/vanity. Oh well...we spent the evening checking out Main Street, eating tasty ice cream and generally enjoying ourselves despite all that had happened. The next day we packed up and tried to do a short hike to the top of a waterfall...guess what...trail closed due to unsafe conditions or something like that. Probably a good thing - with our luck if the trail had been open we probably would have been crushed to death by a falling boulder. Needless to say I didn't take many photos but here are a few for you to enjoy!
Oh yeah! Forgot, here we are on our 6th Anniversary...photo courtesy of Ms. A - budding photographer
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