On the Way to Mesa Verde!
Saturday, June 12, 2010 by Amy
Our drive down there was uneventful, although it seems like Rudi has to make a dozen stops before even leaving town! Argh. When I'm on the road I like to hurry up and get on the road! We managed to pack quite a bit of food to keep us going the whole trip. The drive took about 7 hours, not including stopping for dinner.
We got to the campground in time to set up the tent before nightfall. Rudi and I make a good tent-erecting team. The tent is quite nice and we're both happy with it. It is big enough inside to fit a queen-size mattress, plus a twin (which is good because that's what we have LOL!) and still a little room left for clothes and stuff. It has a large vestibule which helped a lot. It kept things out of the sun and such without having to put it in the car.
What I could have done without was the enormous spider in my shoe the first morning. I mean ENORMOUS! I tapped out my shoes, them put them on and felt something funny in the left one. I took it off and shook it out again and nothing. I still felt something when I put it on again, so I tapped it out again and this time a huge spider tumbled out. It was fine, I was fine, but I learned a lesson: bring your shoes inside the tent! The spider was seriously as big as a Halloween spider ring. I took a picture because I was sure Rudi would think I was exaggerating. I needed proof:
The people in the campground across from us has the same tent we did. They did practice runs and theirs was tighter than ours. We decided that the tethers and such weren't needed, so ours was wrinkly (probably from our ball-up and stuff method of putting tents away!)
