09-17-08 Wednesday (Can't Stop Coughin')

Colorado Springs is truly amazing. We ventured to Garden of the Gods today. For those of you who have been to Red Rock Canyon in Vegas will understand the beauty of it. This place is similar but the beauty and awe is magnified many a time. This was a driving tour that provided many pull-overs with opportunities to use facilities. They had trails all over the place. They were specialized; some for horseback riding, some for walking and others for mountain biking. Picnic areas and informational boards were bountiful. Like so many other attractions, pictures don’t do it justice, but here’s the slideshow anyway.



Back at home for lunch. After I smear mayo on the bread, a large moth lands in it and gets stuck. It fluttered in the mayo, leaving it’s icky “moth wing dust” to turn the mayo from white to gray. Jim and I starred in disgust. What’s the chances? Or more like ewwwwwwwwwwww. It was our last piece of bread so Jim got the tweezers to carefully pull it off. NOT! We threw that damn bread out and started over.

After an eventful lunch, we met up with Andy and Steve who live in Manitou Springs. It was fun talking to locals and getting the inside scoop on the area. We chatted for 3 hours. One story that stuck in my mind is the Emma Crawford Festival in late October. Legend has it that she was buried up high and after heavy rains, her coffin slid all the way down into the downtown area. Every year the locals have coffin soap box races down a hill in her honor. Sounds fun! Just a reminder to novice computer users. If you wish to see a link or picture made larger but don’t want to “lose” the blog by doing so, RIGHT-CLICK on the link or picture and a window will pop up. Choose “Open in new window”. Here’s a link: http://www.manitousprings.org/coffin_races.htm.

Tomorrow we move on to Casper, Wyoming. We made up our dinner menu and this time headed to Target. I know, you must be thinking, “What traitors!” I like Target’s clothes better and we needed some more long sleeve shirts. We had to pass 3 Target stores to get to a SuperTarget. We picked up thermal undies and the shirts, as well as dinner menu ingredients.

I guess with the thinner air, we’ve been tired earlier than usual. It seems that it’s hard to make it up past 11pm, yet I can’t sleep past 7am. I was always amazed at how most retirees are early to bed and early to rise, and often commented if I was retired I’d sleep in. Hmmmmm doesn’t seem to be happening! Odd. I’ll tell you that Grandma Kelly, is not like that. She’s a late night, sleep in late type of gal as Harold can probably attest. YAWN.

Some miscellaneous photos for ya:

View from our campground at Lone Duck in Colorado Springs.

View from our campground at Lone Duck.

Family bedtime again. Where will we sleep?