Sunday, August 17, 2008
Limon Motor Home & RV Park, Limon, CO: July 15
The drive from Walsenburg to Limon is about 160 miles, which is a pretty long day for us. We stopped for lunch at Ordway, CO, then continued on until we could start feeling our bladders at about 2pm. The nice thing about traveling in an RV is that you always have a bathroom along -- all you really need is a wide spot in the road. Unfortunately, pull-offs on state highways in eastern Colorado are scarce, and so it was while we were crossing our legs that we came upon Punkin Center, CO, little more than a wide spot in the road. But that's all we need! Interestingly enough, Punkin Center is not the center of anything pumpkin-related, but was so named because of a bright orange building that used to be there.
We had noticed Limon RV Park on a previous trip and jotted down the number for future reference. The only other choice we could find was the KOA, whose price range was $24 to $60, which for us, of course, meant $60 (actually that's not necessarily true, since $60 is probably full-hookup, and we would get water & electric only, but still it would be pricey) or boondocking, which was out of the question since temps were in the mid-90s. This place was "only" $25/night, and in retrospect, boondocking at the local Flying J with trucks running their engines all night might not have been so so bad. On a scale of one to ten, this place ranks about negative four. The managers were a family of four and the type of people that give trailer trash a bad name. Suffice to say that if they appeared in a sit-com, they would be dismissed as too stereotypical.# posted by Doug and Willie @ 9:17 PM 
