Colorado Springs

Well, my whirlwind tour of the US is over. El Paso, Carlsbad, DC, Hunstville, Colorado Springs and Williamsburg over the span of two weeks. Not to mention that I started the trip off from Rome, immediately following on the Normandy trip. Let's just say I'm travelled out for the moment. But, it was great to be back in the west. I miss the desert and the mountains. I need to find an excuse to go there more. Vastness of space and only one of stores and roads and things is much more to a scale I can handle.

While in Colorado Springs, I got to do some siteseeing. First was Pikes Peak, which my rental car easily climbed (passing several SUVs that were poking along). You can find better views and more scenic places, but there's something about being able to drive up to 14,000ft on a whim.


After that was Garden of the Gods. Some people I know have been somewhat disparaging towards the place, but I think it's really cool. It's close to town and the colors and curves of the rocks make for great pictures. How uninteresting is this?


Also did some light hiking out in what really felt like countryside that really felt like it belonged to bears more than it did to me.


There were also some driving excursions. One of which involved driving out to meet the first snow of the year on some very unpaved, very back roads. Another was a quick scenic drive after work that lasted most of the evening and resulted in finding a really nice restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

The pics are here.