Did some needed cleaning along with few RV repairs and headed off towards Great Sand Dunes. We are excited to rent a sand board and go sledding before a storm is supposed to roll through tomorrow.
Great Sand Dunes National Park. 26th National Park.
We miscalculated a bit…we shouldn’t not have been worried about a storm, but rather looked at the weather for wind. It was so windy it was hard to make it to the visitor center without getting blown over.
So needless to say we did not make it sledding or playing around the dunes…because it was really that freezing. And it’s not really enjoyable to run around sand while you’re cold and getting hit in the face with sand during a sandstorm. We were bummed that we are here now…but part of doing this trip is we can’t go to each park/area at the optimal time. We have reserved ourselves to coming back in May or June on our way back through because it looked really fun.
The park contains the tallest sand dunes in North America at 750’ tall. The dunes are at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains.
Sunset light as we were leaving
We camped out at the hot springs right next to the dunes. We had good 2 hour swim before bed.
They had this cool greenhouse 21+ with all these plants.
We got back to the RV and the girls made no bake peanut butter cookies. They were delicious. That’s been one thing that’s hard on the trip…we/the girls want to bake and baking in an RV is not exactly easy, realistic, or doable.
