Camp Dinners Are Better In A VW Bus
The title yellow bus that COULD is in Colorado and ready to roll! It got shipped from Massachusetts and got delivered at 3:00AM. I told the delivery driver that he could stay in Denver for the night and swing by in the morning, but he had a pickup to make at 6:00AM. Getting it off of the delivery truck was precarious- the truck bed was not one sheet of bed, instead it was two ramps that had they been any wider apart, the bus’ tires would not have fit on. Well, after an hour of very slowly and very carefully backing it off the ramps, the delivery was complete.
I then had to take it to Denver to get the carburetors leaned out for the altitude. We took 285- longer, but a little less dramatic than i70 and way less busy. Going down was easy, coming back up….well not so much. A 3 hour drive home ended up taking 8 hours. We were driving during the hottest point in the day, uphill with around 6,000 feet of elevation gain. My mechanic put a feature on my engine that will flash a light on the dashboard when it overheats. This happened maybe 4 times? We had to take about an hour each time to let the engine rest. I guess the good thing about the engine overheating in this type of vehicle is that you’ve got a bed in the back to nap on 😅
The trip to Denver was an adventure in of itself, but the first reaaaal adventure was a drive up Boreas Pass to make some dinner! Boreas Pass is a road in Breckenridge that leads down to Como, and is frequented by people car camping, cycling, or hiking (there’s some nice trails off of the road). We found a great pullout and set up shop for the evening, with a dinner of chicken and shrimp skewers. We played some board games, drank some wine, and the view wasn’t too shabby either! And when the night was over, we could just drive home and pop the dishes in the dishwasher- easy!
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