We originally planned to leave New Horizons this morning. Because we left yesterday, we got an extra day, so we decided to spend a couple of nights at Lathrop State Park. We stayed here in August 2010 and enjoyed it.
We started out this morning on the plains of Kansas, which are generally flat and barren unless they are cultivated. We expected to end the day in the mountains of Colorado. What we didn't expect is that a fair piece of eastern Colorado is also flat and mostly covered with tumbleweeds and such.
We stopped in Sugar City for lunch, parked against the curb, since we couldn't find a better place. We had been driving through unpopulated areas on state and county roads with no berms to speak of. When I started to put out our main slide, which was next to the curb, I suddenly heard a scraping noise and stopped. The bottom of the slide had hit the curb. Fortunately there was no visible damage. We are usually pretty careful about any sort of slope we park near, but it's been quite a while since we encountered any problems, so I wasn't as vigilant as I needed to be. Another lesson learned.
As we drove on, finally the terrain changed and we began to see hills and mesas and even mountains on the horizon.
We arrived at the campground about 3:00 p.m. local time, which is MST, one hour earlier than Kansas. We checked in, put some fresh water in our tank, and set up on our campsite. It's site 92, the same one we had four years ago.
We have views of the mountains, but storms obscured some of the peaks. Fortunately it was sunny when we arrived, and the weather held for our walk. In the photo below, you can see one of the lakes if you look hard.
The wind has picked up, and we expect rain and possibly thunderstorms overnight.
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