Itinerant RVers traveling the Turquoise and Chisholm Trails
Dates:
July 13, 2019 to July 14, 2019
Mileage:
4,244
Location:
Holiday RV Park
North Platte, NE
Holiday RV Park turned out to be another really nice surprise.
Dates:
July 12, 2019 to July 13, 2019
Mileage:
3,998
Location:
Gretna KOA
Gretna, NE
Six states now and that’ll hold for a while, as we work our way back to New Mexico. First, though it’s off to Denver and the APPA Annual conference. We broke up the Sioux Falls to Denver trip into three legs: to Gretna, Platte, and then Denver, or rather, Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora.
Dates:
July 7, 2019 to July 13, 2019
Mileage:
3,775
Location:
Sioux Falls KOA
Sioux Falls, SD
ElizaBeth was great about wanting me to continue to teach APPA Supervisor’s Toolkit, as was CAPPA, and we had planned for one at South Dakota State University since January. We wanted a really good park since she would be by herself during the day, and we had to go to Sioux Falls – but it was worth it. I drove to Brookings each day.
Dates:
July 6, 2019 to July 7, 2019
Mileage:
3,597
Location:
New Frontier RV Park
Presho, SD
We originally had reservations at the Kennebec SD KOA, which runs along Medicine Creek, but they suffered a flood in May and didn’t have the park ready. New Frontier RV Park in Presho was kind enough to squeeze us in.
Dates:
July 2, 2019 to July 6, 2019
Mileage:
3,426
Location:
Rapid City RV Park
Rapid City, SD
Five states slept in now! Because this stop was over the 4th of July, we made these reservations so far in advance that somehow I had it in my mind that we were staying at KOA. We went there, and they didn’t have a reservation for us, so I looked it up. OOOPS! Wrong park. Like always, it worked out for the best, Rapid City RV Park was on top of the ridge overlooking the city and afforded a great view of the city and area.
We got interested in the Quilt Trail and walked around most of Lusk, further stumbling upon the Stagecoach Museum. The Stagecoach Museum is in a former Wyoming National Guard Armory and houses relics from the 19th-and 20th-centuries when Lusk was a notorious cow town and busy homesteader area.
Dates:
July 1, 2019 to July 2, 2019
Mileage:
3,278
Location:
B. J.s Campground
Lusk, WY
The town of Lusk is known for being the county seat of the least populated county in the least populated state in the US. I had to think about that for a minute. The town has an interesting history.
Dates:
June 30, 2019 to July 1, 2019
Mileage:
3,128
Location:
Cheyenne KOA
Cheyenne, WY
When we wake up in the morning, we will have added another state.
Dates:
June 28, 2019 to June 30, 2019
Mileage:
2,907
Location:
Pueblo KOA Journey
Pueblo, CO
We left Eagle’s Nest at 8 am and were doing laundry at Pueblo by 2 pm. It’s 100 degrees F! Come to Colorado and cool off, they said. We have three states visited now, or rather, slept in per our coloring ground rules.
Dates:
June 25, 2019 to June 28, 2019
Mileage:
2,737
Location:
Golden Eagle RV Park
Eagle’s Nest, NM
We left Santa Fe and took the low road to Taos, Elizabeth liked that route better until those last few miles from Taos into the Moreno Valley.
