Category: Colorado
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Drive from Colorado Springs to Oakley, Kansas
September 9, 2022 It was a nice drive on 94 and 40 from Colorado Springs to Oakley, Kansas. It was pretty flat and very dry as we made the turn onto 40. 94 was a bit rough and narrow, but still tractor-trailers were making time at 65 mph. We missed the turn at Kit Carson…
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US Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame
Thursday, September 8, 2022 Colorado Springs has an Olympic Training Center, which would have been a lot of fun to see, but we couldn’t go. We did go to the Hall of Fame though, and it was very cool. It’s a museum also, so there are lots of pictures and stories of famous athletes. Like…
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The Broadmoor Hotel
Thursday, September 8, 2022 We went for a visit to the Broadmoor Hotel, an iconic, beautiful hotel in Colorado Springs. Passing by lovely Pauline Chapel, we we went to The Penrose Heritage Museum just across the street from the hotel. It is mostly a carriage museum, but also has cars and motorcycles owned by the…
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Rodeo Hall of Fame and Museum
September 7, 2022 The ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs is dedicated to professional rodeo riders, livestock, equipment, clowns and events. Opened in 1979, it has historical exhibits, stories of over 300 inductees and displays of saddles, ropes, lariats and outfits. I learned that lariat comes from the Spanish, La reata or lasso. It…
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US Air Force Academy
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 It was a beautiful morning at Cheyenne Mountain State park as the sun rose over Colorado Springs. Cheyenne Mountain has quite a story. Deep within the granite is a NORAD site built during the cold war. The Broadmoor has a resort up there and a zoo. An antenna farm sits on…
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Garden of The Gods & Pike’s Peak
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 It is about a 5.5 hour drive from Durango to Colorado Springs, which is northeast of Durango. It takes us about an hour or so longer by the time we stop for lunch, gas and whatever else happens. Pulling the Airstream makes us a little slower, but not that much. We…
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Durango, Colorado
Saturday/Sunday, September 2/3, 2022 50 degrees at 6:00, 84 degrees high We went to the farmer’s market, which was good. Martha loves a farmer’s market! It is downtown near the train station where we took our ride to Silverton. We went into historic Strater Hotel to look around, and were surprised when a front desk…
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Durango to Silverton Narrow Gauge Train
Thursday, September 1, 2022 52 degrees at 6:00, high of 85 Yesterday we drove from Taos, NM to Durango, Colorado. It was one of the prettiest drives of the trip going through Carson National Forest in the San Juan Mountains. With 1.5 million acres, it makes you want to explore. Voted the best train ride…
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Canyon of The Ancients National Monument
August 9, 2022 53 degrees at 6:30 With 270,000 acres and hundreds of sites, there is a lot to explore and discover in Canyons of the Ancients. We opted to hike Sand Canyon Trail to Saddlehorn Pueblo and Double Cliff House for a 4-mile out-and-back hike. We were a little late getting started at 9:00,…
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Lowrey Pueblo, Canyon of The Ancients National Monument
Monday, August 8, 2022 Canyon of The Ancients is a massive 270,000 acres on the Sagebrush Plains in the southwest corner of Colorado with 30,000 Ancestral Puebloan ruins, and more being found. Humans have been here for 12,000 years. Starting around 750 AD they started farming and building homes, starting with clustered pit houses –…