We stopped in Salt Lake City for a few days to have some work done on the RV. We spent one day on a Day Trip to the Pony Express. We also spend a day at the "This is the Place" state park and Deseret Village in Salt Lake City. Annette enjoyed a swing outside one of the reconstructed homes.

 

Next, we headed east across Wyoming. You remember how covered wagons used to lose their wheels? Well, this almost happened around Cheyenne. We stopped at a rest stop. If you've been following our travels, it's the one with the "railroad tree" that people watered as they traveled west. Anyway, Annette decided to do a standard check of the RV. She couldn't believe her eyes when she noticed a crack in the hitch we just replaced in Idaho! We could have lost the car again. What's the problem? Anyway, we unhooked the car and drove on to Denver. So much for our Oregon Trail project. We'll have to finish it another time.

While in Denver we stayed at the Dakota Ridge RV Park. This cute, but expensive park is nestled in the foothills of Golden. We spent a few days in Denver getting Annette's laptop fixed and a new RV hitch fabricated. We enjoyed taking evening walks in the RV park. We noticed that many people liked to walk at dusk and soon found out why. The coyotes come down from the hills at dusk to hunt the rabbits. Of course, we'd come to enjoy the company of the rabbit that lived in the bush next to our RV, so we weren't thrilled with this idea. On the other hand, we'd heard that sometimes instead of a rabbit, the coyotes were known to run off with one of those little, loud, yappy dogs that many RV owners adore. We don't have anything against dogs as long as they poop in designated areas and aren't running loose.