Archives: Vacation

There were adventurers among us, and there were shoppers among us. We headed to Colorado Springs for the day Thursday to either ride the cog wheel train to the top of Pike’s Peak or hit the Current catalog store. Hopefully, you know me well enough to put me in the Pike’s Peak group. After a • Read More »

Who in their right mind stands at one side of a ¼ mile span that is 1000 feet deep and thinks, “There should be a suspension bridge across this.” Some crazy dude did exactly this outside of Cañon City, Colorado. We spent the day visiting the greater Cañon City area including Royal Gorge on Wednesday. • Read More »

Tuesday’s plan was a split squad affair. Some of us wanted to tame the west peak, while the remaining crew opted for a little local shopping. I’m not really sure what to call it, but it seemed a lot like a state park that has a path from a trailhead to the treeline on the • Read More »

The plan for Monday was to head a couple hours west to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Monica and her family had been there when she was little (where haven’t they been?), but the grand-children and sons-in-law have never visited. As you approach the dunes from a long, flat, straight road leading to the • Read More »

With yesterday’s excitement behind us, today started off sunny and warm. Hooray! I wonder if the road will be dry enough to travel… It was decided that the day would be spent exploring the property on which the cabin sits. Given that it’s about 1000 acres, we had our work cut out for us. Several • Read More »