Martha returned home this morning, I'll be here till Friday morning I think.
Here's Tuesday's sunset display:
Had an interesting experience in the afternoon. A guy walked up into my campsite, I didn't hear him calling out as he approached because I had a Bluetooth speaker going with an audiobook.
Anyways, I finally heard him when he was perhaps 15 ft away. He was asking for help in charging his car battery jump starter. He needed it to jump start his car, which he was carcamping in the next spot over closer to Rampart Range Road.
I was a bit rattled that I let someone get that close to the campsite without knowing it, must be more vigilant apparently.
Anyways I told him I could help, he brought over his jump starter and I hooked it up to the small generator to charge it up for the next 2 hours.
He returned in two hours, thanked me and left for his campsite.
He wasn't sketchy at all, just looked like a middle-aged man down on his luck. He said he was waiting for payday to get a new battery for his car. Not sure what he was doing car camping in the forest but what can you do? I did ask if he was good with water and food and he said he was fine
Wednesday, August 20
I decided to displace to a national forest spot along Rampart Range Road 15 mi from my campsite.
Two reasons, the view and to get some distance from yesterday's car camper.
He was still there as I drove by in the VR RV so I'm not sure what kind of work he does.
Anyways, 15 miles of dirt road later I was at the new site:
As you can see, the view of Pikes Peak is pretty good since we are closer to it.
It's a hilltop site so pretty easy to monitor my surroundings.
The site is at 9242 ft altitude. Supposed to get as high as 80° today and tomorrow so it should be nice and warm.
Coming around the rig after some work, I saw a young black bear, checking out a drainage pipe about 200 ft away from the campsite. By the time I got the phone camera ready, he'd spotted me and run off.
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