We drove a lot of this big sky country in Montana, Wyoming and northern Colorado
Aileen shot these two pictures of the massive traffic going through Denver. Our friend Char said we should use the toll road. We were thinking maybe we should have as this went on for a long time
Well here we are in Colorado Springs, CO right on schedule
(dang, there’s that plan word again) and it felt like a long way. It was 2610 kms (1631 miles) and seven
days. There was so much construction on
the whole route. It’s not too much fun
driving for many miles at high speed and restricted to single lane, often on
the opposite side of the freeway with nothing but some plastic cones between
you and the opposing traffic who are doing 65mph or more. I was amazed at the number of hills there
were as the interstates tend to follow the contours which made it difficult to
use cruise control for extended periods.
The rig wanted to downshift too far too early which was noisy.
We had three nights with noisy campgrounds too close to the
interstate and three night with quiet ones.
We are crammed cheek by jowl in our site here in Colorado Springs but it
is pretty close to my conference location.
The hotel is six miles from here and three of it is on the interstate so
about nine or ten minutes driving depending on lights. Aileen will be able to take her scooter and
explore Old Colorado City which is only half a km from here.
I went and found the conference hotel after we got set up
this afternoon and got my registration package.
After supper we went for a drive and found ourselves in the Garden of
the Gods. The light was interesting so I
did some shooting. I’m going there on my
tour tomorrow afternoon and evening so it will be interesting to see how it
compares.
These are all at the Garden of the Gods
These guys were posing for someone else
There is a young girl climbing up near the top
A pair of many deer we saw. The big guy on the right appears to have a broken left hip as the leg stayed in that position.
After the sun went down the sky and rocks came together better
Garden of the Gods is one of our favorite parks in CO.
ReplyDeleteColorado is the only state west of Alabama that we have never visited during our full-timing (well, OK, Hawaii also). We definitely have it on our radar screen. Thanks for the great shots of Garden of the Gods. Can't believe you thought that was heavy traffic! Have you never been to the freeways in Phoenix or LA?
ReplyDeleteWe've driven through Phoenix several times and at least that traffic was moving at a good speed. Yesterday we were just crawling along and never did see any real reason for it except there seemed to be an event at the Denver Bronco's stadium. John
ReplyDeleteGarden of the Gods is one of our favorite parks in CO
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