Another camping trip, another adventure. It wasn't exactly the ideal trip for us, but then again when is it? We decided to take an extended weekend trip for the 4th of July up to Eleven Mile Campground, which is in Lake George, Colorado. We've never camped there before, and now we have and we probably won't ever camp there again.
The worst thing about camping in Colorado...having to plan 6 months in advance! We've done the tent camping. We've done the pop-up trailer camping. Now I only want to do the RV/trailer camping. I don't care if other people say, "That's not really camping!" It is to me. I just like to have certain amenities that go along with it.
Sure, you can go camping where there's no campground, no reservations needed, but I would rather be in a campground with the kids. I would rather have electric hook-ups so I can run my microwave! Of course, that's also nice to charge electronics too. I would rather have peace-of-mind that wherever we drive to has a spot waiting for us, with no one else in it. But the downside is you will rarely find a spot with all that on short notice.
We tried to be spontaneous and plan this trip to Eleven Mile. We reserved our spots online 2 weeks prior. We had to settle for spots with no electricity. Okay fine. We can survive 3 days without that, right? But once we got up there, we questioned that.
How spoiled are we? How many luxuries do we really need to "rough it"? I tell you, sometimes life is difficult without all the goods.
It pretty much is desert land there. Not much else but dirt. No trees, no grass, not very pretty. We were right by the reservoir there, which actually was the best part. But fishing still sucked. The boys were able to go to Spinney Reservoir, which is really close to Eleven Mile and has much better fishing. We still haven't had a fish fry though and Ashley's patience is running out on that! But the kids had a great time playing by the water, looking for all sorts of treasures throughout the campground. It wasn't all bad! There was a fire ban in effect there, so we couldn't even have a campfire. Not that we really wanted to because it was so dang hot there in the 80's. I could have stayed home for that! And the bugs were a bit of a nuisance. You couldn't stand in one place for too long either before the fire ants attacked you. All of a sudden you would have 20 ants crawling up your legs and biting. Not much fun! This really would have been the ideal place to have electricity. Turn on the A/C and plug in the DVD player for the kids.
So...what do we do now? We've had 2 camping trips that fizzled a bit. Well, the only thing we can do is plan another one. We did find a new campground to go to. It's in the trees, with electricity, next to lakes that will hopefully have good fishing. Let's hope for the best!
Note to self...next year plan ALL camping trips well in advance.
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