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We left home on Friday (6\/3) and drove to Pat\u2019s brother\u2019s house near Guffey, CO.\u00a0 Jeff and Julie are great hosts and they have 60 acres of beautiful land.\u00a0 We went into the town of Guffey two nights for great dinners at what they call \u201cThe Bakery\u201d.\u00a0 One night was pizza and the second night was with some of their friends (Zach and Jen) where we had a great three course meal with the main course being a special beef plate.<\/p>\n
Besides wanting to spend some time with the Spring\u2019s, we wanted to try dry camping with our new trailer.\u00a0 That turned out to be a bit frustrating.<\/p>\n
We had three problems testing our dry camping capabilities.\u00a0 First of all, the afternoons were very cloudy so we did not get a lot of solar.\u00a0 Secondly, we gave up on pure dry camping and plugged into the Spring\u2019s 120V outlet. \u00a0After an hour or two the GFI outlet (not the breaker) would trip. This often happens with campers equipped with inverters \u2013 somehow the inverter makes the circuit look like the system is going to ground.\u00a0 Lastly, we tried our 2000W Honda generator and it went bonkers after a few minutes, acting like it was overloaded. I did not have the proper test equipment, but the inverter data panel would suggest it was not overloaded.\u00a0 I had tried the Honda with an 1800W resistance heater at home and it did fine.\u00a0 I will have to troubleshoot it at home where I have the proper testing equipment.\u00a0 We finally ended up using the Spring\u2019s Generator (Firman 3000 watt (link)<\/a>).\u00a0 This handled the charging load just fine.\u00a0 However, we ran two CAPs and one concentrator (plus some small loads) off the batteries during the night and that let us know that we need to add battery capacity.<\/p>\n We left the Spring\u2019s on Monday and came to this campground.\u00a0 It is a very beautiful campground.\u00a0 We paid extra for a river front site and it was well worth it (see photos).\u00a0 For reference, we are in site 8 but sites 8-10 would work well for us in the future.<\/p>\n We had thought about going into Salida for a day, but it is so relaxing here that we just stayed in the campground.\u00a0 We tried to see if they would let us stay in the site for another couple of days, but they are booked up.<\/p>\n View across the Arkansas River (our campsite is in the middle of the photo)<\/p>\n That is all for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello from Howard, CO Wednesday evening\u2013 June 8, 2022 (First post of this travelogue) This is our third trip out in our new trailer.\u00a0 We are camped at the Pleasant Valley RV Park (Google Map). {google_map}38.43106 -105.8125{\/google_map} We left home … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/View-of-Howard-Salida-Campsite-from-our-patio-Medium-e1654736320204-300x225.jpg\")
View from our Patio<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/View-of-Howard-Salida-Campsite-from-across-river-Medium-e1654736360888-300x225.jpg\")
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