Beautiful Boulder...

The Flatiron Mountains at Chautauqua Park in Boulder, Colorado

       When we found ourselves without reservations for the Fourth of July Weekend, the Elks Club in Boulder was most welcoming, telling us they had seven 30 amp electric sites with water and a dump station and that if they were full we were welcome to dry camp.

Beautiful wildflowers beside miles of walking and biking trails

      We arrived on July 1 and departed for St. Vrain State Park about twenty minutes away where we had made a reservation for July 2 and 3, knowing we would probably return on July 4 and 5.

Great happy hours at Boulder ChopHouse & Tavern

Prime Rib!

      Boulder is a beautiful city along the Front Range of the Rockies north of Denver, an eclectic college town with the Flatiron Mountains as a backdrop.  It is commonly referred to as "Twenty-five square miles surrounded by reality."

      Valerie's daughter, Lindsay, who had established a busy practice in Minneapolis, was invited to assume the practice of a leading expert in her chosen field of acupuncture and sports medicine http://www.modernpointacupuncture.com/meet-lindsay-long.

Lindsay's Boulder office

      Lindsay showed us some tourist sights and we did some discovering on our own as we continued arranging the excess items in the Camelot and catching up on laundry, etc. without full hook-ups following our big move.

      We will let the pictures tell the story, and we will no doubt return for another visit to Boulder where we hope to meet with Asher Haun, a professional driving instructor for the RV Driving School in nearby Fort Collins.

Boulder has boulders!

We walked along the downtown area known as "Pearl Street"

Street performers and interesting shops line the Pearl Street area

Beautiful sculptures on Pearl Street -- "Broken Heart Swing"

Colorful flowers!

Street vendors show their wares

Kids playing in the fountains

Kid-sized sculptures

The Ramsey house -- location of Boulder's notorious, unsolved child murder in 1996

TV series "Mork and Mindy" exterior shots filmed at this Boulder home

Elks Club has seven RV sites in the rear of thee building

Valerie followed the nearby walking trail to this neighborhood park

Wildflowers along the walking trail

Thanks, we'll just pick it up!

Waiting for fireworks to begin at Folsom Field

Happy birthday, America!