Camping with the Hubby

This weekend was our first solo car camping trip together!  We survived!  Woohoo!

The trip came about with my contacting the Made in Colorado Shoppe.

I wanted to have my pottery displayed there for people that might be interested in buying made in Colorado pottery!  We packed up 1.5 boxed of pottery to bring down for consignment. The woman in charge was a might abrupt/direct  but I managed to not be offended or get my feelings hurt with most of her comments! Yeah me!  She took about the equivalent of the big box worth of items to sell. That was good! Cross your fingers that other people like it too!

After that we headed off to enjoy our weekend in the woods! 

We headed to down town Pagosa Springs to have lunch – yes it was about 3! We picked the mexican restaurant on the river!

Tequila's Family Mexican Restaurant
439 San Juan St.
P.O. box 3397
Pagosa Springs, CO   81147
Phone: 970-264-9989    
Description: Specializing in Mexican food from family recipes, for all families, friendly service, and a pleasant atmosphere.

I would compare my seafood tacos with the mini lobster tacos at Coyote Grill in Laguna CA which is one of my absolute favorite restaurants! Mmmmm! It was fabulously yummy!

I chowed down on my tacos and yummy margaritas while hubby had a chimi changa!

After that we headed into the wilderness to begin our camping portion of  the trip.

From recommendation of both the owner of the Made in Colorado Shoppe as well as the fella at the Chamber of Commerce info booth in town – we headed back to Williams Creek Resevour for our nightly stay!

  We passed most of the camp sites – all but the one by the lake had plenty of space, and stopped at the Chimaron site (39 on the map).  We found a spot by the river! Such a great sound! 

We successfully set up camp – tent  (which had some additional holes from having lent it to a friend who didn’t clean it out and trapped a little bug inside that attempted to eat his way out – sloppy friends are the worst), sleeping bags, pads (one that needed to be blown up cause I didn’t properly read the description when I got it for hubby for Christmas), and pillows!

Next we attempted the camp fire. We didn’t bring enough wood. So we did the bad thing – foraged for down trees around the camp site!  We found enough to keep us comfortable for the evening!  We decided against our main meal – mac n cheese with Vienna sausages – since we had such a big lunch just a couple hours earlier. So we did the next best thing – cocoa and s’mores!  Nummies!

We both slept in fits and spurts. Not sure why, I usually do well in the woods, but some reason I wasn’t comfortable – I think next car camping trip I’m bringing my regular pillow!  Hubby actually was cold – I was sad that he was cold but pleased that he got to live in my world for just a night!  ;) 

Next morning brought us our first opportunity for cooking! My usual breakfast has to do with oatmeal.  Hubby thought this was crap and suggested pancakes…  We only have our cool titanium cook set and didn’t really consider the ramifications of cooking a single pancake at a time on a funkily heated stove top.  We used A LOT of butter, but they came out ok.  Not sure if we will attempt that again, maybe if we get a real griddle or maybe a bigger pan.

After our carb loaded breakfast we headed off on a hike! 

We headed down to Williams Creek Trail.  This was a trail that offered up something about a walled garden.  There wasn’t really, but the view of the river was super cool about a mile up.  We gave up after 2 miles and headed back to camp.

We then broke camp, and headed off to see some waterfalls!

We started with Piedra Falls – 8 miles off of the 20 miles dirt road on a less graveled road.  Good thing hubby is such a good sport!  The falls were about a mile up a trail and were pretty darn spectacular!  The amount of water coming through was amazing!

Next stop was Treasure Falls (you can see this one from the highway), the other options were listed with warnings about washed out roads and slick conditions.  We did the little hike (under a mile) to the blow out as well as the falls.   Really pretty stuff!

Finally we headed back home around 3, 3:30 pm.  Yes I am very mean to my hubby!  We still had a 5 hour drive home!  Ooffa!

We did get to see the Lazy Bear Cabins! We were so excited!  Might have to give them a call and see if they want to partner!

We also got to stop at Dunkin Donuts on the way back to civilization! Mmmmm!

 Great weekend and can't wait for more camping!  Just gotta spend some more money at REI!