Blogs from Dillon, Colorado, United States, North America

Now to start this blog, an important announcement - the wildlife count took a dramatic increase on Day 18 - please add 3 x Longhorn Sheep, 1 x Deer & 1 x Fox (the chicken stealing kind, not the kind you find at nightclubs!) Let's hope the count continues to increase! Day 16 - Here we are in Colorado Springs, sitting in Applebee's for dinner, looking out at Pikes Peak complete with a fresh dusting of snow and ominous black clouds gathering. Hopefully they'll be gone in the morning when we ride past the 14,115 feet high peak. Glad to get out of Garden City this morning, the air had the pungent odor of cattle, millions of cattle, so we've been told that there are 7 feedlots around town & two abattoir's which process 11,000 head ... read more

Now begins the 1200 mile trip back to Arkansas. Mother Nature seems to have us in the temperature temperate zone. Will just have to see if the forcast is real.The road from Paonia hwy 133 wound around to I-70. Passing through a very high pass at Vail Colorado. 10,600 ft and very chilly! Hooray! Stopped in Dillon for night and recommend Super 8. However, there is no elevator. People here just walk more I guess. One can get winded at 9000 feet if not careful, I figured I would have to do cpr on Charlie once or twice! We recommend the mexican restaurant across from the hotel. The rally at Paonia was pretty uneventful so no posts were made. Travel tip: when changing altitudes many times it is a good idea to put your lotions in ... read more

I have seen the Cordovas more times this year than the majority of my friends who live in Omaha, but when my parents told me they had a condo for this past weekend the first thing I did was check in with Erin and Steve to see what they were doing. Once they let me know that they were down I decided that I was going to fly out on Thursday and then drive up to the mountains on Friday. Outside of the Cordovas there were two other people who live in Denver that I wanted to meet up with. The first, Sara, lived in Thailand while I was there. She is the one who inspired me to start blogging. (http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Sara-G/) I had been doing research for things to see and do while in Thailand, ... read more