Friday morning Miranda and I got up early and headed for Canon City, Colorado to see the Royal Gorge, the world’s highest suspension bridge. Because we made it there before their normal business hours, we were able to get into the park for the early bird special price of $14 per person instead of $21…

Miranda and I arrived in the Breckenridge area on Wednesday afternoon and we decided to go to Vail on Thursday morning.  Needless to say, Vail is perfect.  Too perfect.  There are all of these perfect shops with perfect shop owners and everyone appears to have lots of money, it was all just a little too…

After hiking in Buena Vista we decided to head north towards Breckenridge and on the way was the quaint little town known as Leadville.  Leadville is the highest altitude town/city in the US and Miranda was quite taken with this little town.  She really like the antique shops and I hated them.  I will not…

On Tuesday afternoon Miranda and I drove to Buena Vista and Wednesday morning she and I got up early to do some hiking. Initially we drove 20 miles up the mountain to Cottonwood Pass, which lies on the continental divide. Of course everyone knows that the continental divide is the point where the watershed divides…

Tuesday morning Miranda and I drove to Manitou Springs, Colorado to make our way up to Pike’s Peak. There are a couple of ways to get up this mountain, the first is to drive, without guardrails, the second is to climb up and the third is to take a train. We opted for the train.…

This is the elusive and very controversial Seven Falls. It really is amazing, and the height of it is really amazing as well. Also, you can see, if you enlarge the picture, the stairwell that runs along the falls themselves. That’s the second set of stairs referred to in the previous post. This is the…

After the Garden of the Gods we decided to go to Seven Falls.  For the life of me I cannot remember how much admission to this place was, but after it was all said and done, I didn’t think that it was worth the amount.  Seven Falls is a large cliff with, you guessed it,…

These are incredible formations from the top of a small ridge within the paved portion of the park. It’s pretty amazing that these rocks are holding each other up and that the erosion of these rocks formed in this particular fashion. I think the other thing to emphasize is the size of these rocks and…

We started off our trip on Sunday in the great city of Colorado Springs. Early on Monday morning around 7 a.m. at the Garden of the Gods we began in the main parking area and started walking around the paved area. The most breathtaking rock formations are within this paved area, but Miranda and I…

We are currently at the Super 8 Motel in Buena Vista, CO. Obviously, this motel has high speed wireless internet and right now I’m sitting in my underwear making my first post. The trip to Colorado started very late, we didn’t get to leave Terrell until 6:00 on Saturday evening, nevertheless, things went well. The…