My wife and I spent the last 11 days in Colorado, mostly Denver area and Grand Junction. For better or worse:
Pikes Peak late June. Snow and the walk from the car to the snack bar kicked my ***.
Later enjoyed manitou Springs and ate the best BBQ brisket ever in Colo Springs.
Putted on over the Rockies to Grand Junction, visited more family and spent a day hiking up Grand Mesa. Hint: do not take trail named "Craggy Walk" or somesuch. 10 miles of rocks and felling of impending broken bones.
Beautiful and more snow at about 11000 ft. Take the "Land o Lakes" about a half mile and paved, leading to this.
The mosquitos don't know it's so high or they're crazy because my bites had bites. Back to Denver and headed over to Estes Park. Beautiful little town and the view from the tram top is worth the trouble.
You can see the Hotel Stanley where "The Shining" was filmed on the left.
Back of the mountain looks down on Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park.
Finished last day fishing with my boy who lives there and has made a good life for himself.
Didn't catch a thing but the time was priceless (actually the 1 day license cost $9). Hung out till the thunder rolled.
A couple complaints:
If we are going downhill 10 miles on an 8% grade with a 75 mph speed limit, don't hang 4 inches off my back bumper just because you know I can't slow down.
And what's with the lanes ending? The right lane ends every 50 ft and sometimes the left lane ends at the same time. I guess with all the legal weed (which I never saw) Co wants to be sure you are paying attention.
Not that this matters because near downtown Denver traffic does not move in any direction at any time. I 70 and 25 are parking lots at least every time I got on. A meal at Vesta on Blake St will cure any ills though. Glad to be home. Joe
Pikes Peak late June. Snow and the walk from the car to the snack bar kicked my ***.
Later enjoyed manitou Springs and ate the best BBQ brisket ever in Colo Springs.
Putted on over the Rockies to Grand Junction, visited more family and spent a day hiking up Grand Mesa. Hint: do not take trail named "Craggy Walk" or somesuch. 10 miles of rocks and felling of impending broken bones.
Beautiful and more snow at about 11000 ft. Take the "Land o Lakes" about a half mile and paved, leading to this.
The mosquitos don't know it's so high or they're crazy because my bites had bites. Back to Denver and headed over to Estes Park. Beautiful little town and the view from the tram top is worth the trouble.
You can see the Hotel Stanley where "The Shining" was filmed on the left.Back of the mountain looks down on Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park.
Finished last day fishing with my boy who lives there and has made a good life for himself.
Didn't catch a thing but the time was priceless (actually the 1 day license cost $9). Hung out till the thunder rolled.
A couple complaints:
If we are going downhill 10 miles on an 8% grade with a 75 mph speed limit, don't hang 4 inches off my back bumper just because you know I can't slow down.
And what's with the lanes ending? The right lane ends every 50 ft and sometimes the left lane ends at the same time. I guess with all the legal weed (which I never saw) Co wants to be sure you are paying attention.
Not that this matters because near downtown Denver traffic does not move in any direction at any time. I 70 and 25 are parking lots at least every time I got on. A meal at Vesta on Blake St will cure any ills though. Glad to be home. Joe
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So many people come here and do not leave. We used to have fewer people and it was a pleasant place to live. As for the traffic, we have narrow roads with few passing places. When a passing place finally arrives, most often oncoming traffic will not let you pass. The best thing to do when traffic is behind you is to use your right turn signal and pull over and let them pass, then you are once again ahead of the pack. Nobody came to Colorado to look at the back of a slower vehicle. Just Thursday I was motoring over Independence pass at 50 mph, the speed limit was 25 mph for the tourists. I looked in my rear view mirror and a Volvo station wagon was rapidly gaining on me. One half mile ahead was a pull over, which I did, and a courteous wave came from the moon roof. Come again and when you get to our town feel free to offer me a steak dinner.
