Blogs from Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, North America

Last Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the paperwork that created his first contribution to the National Park Service: the former Camp Amache in southeastern Colorado, about a three-hour drive from Colorado Springs. It was another American president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who signed the deeply regrettable Executive Order 9066 in February 1942. That edict, a low for American values, legalized the seizure of American citizens, their homes, and businesses, simply on the basis of whether they had Japanese heritage. The wartime measure swept some 110,000 law-abiding people—including many children—into incarceration across 10 hastily established facilities in some of the country's most desolate and forbidding locales. Amache (pictured above in 1942), the smallest of... read more

I am now returning to finish the blogs for our Alaska trip. I apologize for the break in action but hope to catch up now. We left off with Pike's Peak and our next adventure was seeing the sites around Colorado Springs. We hope you enjoy the photos as much as we enjoyed taking them.... read more

We are off on another trip to see parts of the USA that we haven’t seen before. Left home this morning shortly before ten and arrived in Colorado Springs about three. The trip was fine the whole way with a little bit of traffic building up around Pueblo that stayed with us the rest of the way. We checked in at the Hilton Garden Inn, and Philip was able to catch up on his class’s posts before dinner. He has two weeks left in this class. The areas we drove through today started with the desert north of Albuquerque, then a few forested mountains before reaching the plains of northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colorado. The landscape is calming and quiet with a long way between roadside stops. When we did stop for gas, it was ... read more

Geo: 39.0712, -104.663We were scheduled to leave the cabin by noon on Friday. Glenn and I "repacked" our stuff in our overnight bags, for the next 3 nights, until we get to Frisco, Colorado. That way, we don't have to lug our large suitcase around, and I'm packed in the overnights and my make-up bag. We did the same thing with David's stuff. We had way too many toys for him, especially since they had toys in the cabin already.We made instant oatmeal for breakfast. David ate 3 packages. Emily ate 2. Lucy is so cute. When she wants to eat, she will climb up into her high chair, turn around and even put her bib on. Yes, she is a climber! Glenn had pre-loaded the van the night before with all the bicycle stuff such ... read more

Colorado Springs, Colorado, 14 juillet Je rêve depuis longtemps de mettre les pieds dans le Sahara... Bien que de nature aquatique, le désert me fascine au plus haut point et ces immenses espaces arides et dénudés m'apportent une totale sérénité que je ne saurais définir. Au Sahara, il y a deux types de déserts, le reg et l'erg. 80% de cet immense désert est caillouteux, tout minéral, c'est le reg. Le 20% restant, celui qui enflamme nos imaginaires avec les oasis et les caravanes, couvert d'immenses dunes de sable fin, c'est l'erg. C'est justement ce que j'ai découvert ce matin au pied des montagnes Sangre de Cristo du Colorado dans le Great Sand Dunes National Park, où les fins sédiments venus des montagnes toutes proches (plus de 4000 m) furent balayés par les vents dominants de ... read more