Monday morning found us on the road again (with a quick stop at a town called Grand Junction to buy a new tent) headed for Aspen, Colorado - exchanging a desert landscape of sandstone and red dust for mountains, pine trees and snow - lots of it! We had a bit of a wander around the centre of Aspen, and I checked out a few of the shops (photographic evidence provided by Craig). The town seemed pretty quiet with only a few skiers still around, but can imagine it's manic when the season's in full swing. As my camping rule for this holiday is "I'm not sleeping in a tent when there's snow on the ground", we found an off-season special and stayed at a place called St Moritz Condominiums - not as ritzy as it
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