NATURITA — The flashing lights bounce off the rusting water tank as the DJ’s thunderous bass resonates across the desert. A couple dozen well-spaced revelers, young and old in wigs and glitter and outrageous costumes, frolic beneath the glowing Milky Way. A friend leans over to Natalie Binder as they absorb the scene from the […]
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Quarantine on wheels: People are turning to RVs to save their summer travel plans from coronavirus
Matt and Mary FaJohn planned to take their two young boys to Iceland in March. “And that got canceled,” Matt FaJohn said as he packed up a new, two-bed camper trailer he bought last week with their refunded vacation money. “So we decided we would do more camping around Colorado this summer.” North Denver’s FaJohns […]
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With life on hold, I packed up my RV and hurried home to Colorado
I have lived in the Roaring Fork valley of western Colorado for 42 years. I got my start as a coal miner at Snowmass Coal on Thompson Creek outside of Carbondale. In the mines you dealt with potential death every day. With the COVID-19 threat it is about the health and lives of loved ones […]