Today we went to the Cave of the Winds and the Celestial Seasonings Plant. The Cave of the Winds was very interesting and informative. When we first arrived, we thought we were going to have to put up with a giant group of kids during our tour. Thankfully, the school kids went on their own tour and we went on a tour afterwards. The tour of the cave was really awesome - seeing all the formations was so amazing, and seeing how people originally entered the cave was a little scary - I'm glad its all paved and staired now :P [View Full Entry]

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We woke up early today to go experience the Pike's Peak Cog Railway. When we got there the ticket lady told us that they were discounting the tickets because it would not be possible to go all the way to the summit today. In fact, the tour guide on the train said that they had not been able to summit for three weeks now. Snow drifts from higher up the mountain were breaking and falling onto the tracks, so we only went up to 12,129 feet elevation - to Windy Point section house. As we got closer to our stopping point, [View Full Entry]

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Ok, back for more, huh?? Ok, we left Durango today around 11 and drove towards Montrose - stopping at Silverton and passing through the "quaint" town of Ouray and drove on two mountain passes: Molas Pass, and Coal Bank Pass. We had our first near "run over" of a mountain ram - that jumped from a small cliff onto the road in front of us! Thank goodness the brakes are good on our rental!! There were also HUGE chunks of ice/snow that had fallen on the road from higher up - these chunks were at least 2 ft wide. Once we [View Full Entry]

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Ok, sorry for not posting yesterday - we encountered a minor problem . . . somebody attacked my laptop with a virus either when we were in Amarillo or when we stayed in Walsenburg, CO last night. It was acting as a virus scanner that had detected a threat, but the person who put it together didn't have spell check because the error message was poorly typed. So - virus killed - we are now back on track! We started yesterday off by going to Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX to spray paint the cars. While we were working on our [View Full Entry]

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We started out day three of our honeymoon by missing a turn in town and going the wrong way for about 10 miles before I could turn around :P oh well! Once we got back on track, we stopped at the Great Sand Dunes National Park. It took us a while to get there because we were forced to follow this Ford Festiva that was going at least 10 miles under the speed limit the whole way there! When we finally got there it was really cool! Its just this HUGE area of sand that is piled into mountains - and [View Full Entry]

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