RVing up to Breckenridge
Our recent Chicago trip wasn't the best (and trips to Chicago rarely qualify as "vacation") so Carol and I rented another RV, dropped QBit off at Camp Bow-Wow, and drove up past Denver and over the Loveland Pass to Breckenridge, Colorado. It's ski country and thus quieter in the summer (which is technically the "off season"!) but gorgeous year-round, and one of all too many places in this country where neither of us has ever been.
I'll bet you've never seen an RV like this: It's one of the uncommon "class B" motorhomes, which are (usually) full-size van conversions. (There is something called a "B+" motorhome, which is actually a smaller Class C, like the RV we rented last October.)
It's a Pleasureway Excel RD, and one of the smallest completely self-contained RVs out there. It has a sofa that electrically jackknifes down into a double bed, a stove, a furnace (they're made in Canada) a refrigerator, a hot water heater, a built-in 17" LCD TV with DVD player, and a bathroom that incorporates a toilet and a sink into a space half the size of a bathroom in a commercial airliner. There is actually a shower, but the shower is in fact...the entire bathroom. It's all waterproofed, and there's a curtain you pull around yourself while you sit on the potty. Then you can hand-spray yourself as much as you need to, and it all goes down the drain in the middle of the bathroom floor to the graywater holding tank.
Yes, it sounds dicey, but given the space they had to work in that might have been the only solution to the shower challenge. We just got in to the Tiger Run RV Resort between Frisco and Breckenridge, and will be staying here until Thursday morning. I'm anxious to look around a little, and very glad for the change in climate: It was to be in the 90s in the Springs today, but up here at 9,100 feet, it's a delicious 70 degrees. I don't know when I'll be able to post this, so expect possible delays until Thursday.