Blogs from Colorado, United States, North America - page 178

Hey Guys, Hopes you are all doing good! Currently writing this to my own email to add to my travelblog later as the travelblog website is down as it has been for ages! Gash hey! I shall add this and a previous blog update to it when its back up! Last update was at Sante Fe - that evening we had some Southwestern cuisine at a restaurant called "The Shed" - I had an enchilades and taco plate and this stuff was hot hot hot! This place also rumoured to be the home of margaritas - dont know how true that is but I had a couple of fruity ones and they were good! The next day we went to Monument Valley in Utah (one state where no alcohol is allowed - whats that all about?!).. ... read more

I'm sick of sitting on the bus! I hate it because my long legs spend all their time curled up into little pretzels, I desperately want to brush my teeth but can't, and all this time to think is making me depressed. Isn't it seriously sad when a person can't have too much time alone to think without feeling despondent? What's worse is that I'm worrying about the same exact things I worried about half a year ago, which was the last time I allowed myself this much time to ruminate. I just talked to a friend on the phone who could relate to my experience and I'm wondering: How many people feel this way? Are we all just trying to stay busy to still our anxious little minds? I've started to pray for peace because, ... read more

There's not much to write up cause we have been so lazy the last few days- just drinking Beer, chillin at the hostel and watchin a few Video's, now thats a machine we nearly didn't know how to work.......no dvd players at this place.....its back to the old school. Since we have FREE net we're gonna stick a few pictures on anyway of us at Denver Zoo. Enjoy!! All in all we ended up staying in the Hostel of the rockies for 8 nights lol, the only other things we done was go to the cinema- The new Bourne Movie, and into town a few days. Lynda the woman who owns the hostel done a free BBQ on the friday night, so we just chilled in the back garden, had a few beers and meet some ... read more

Distance: 12.8 miles to junction with Wigwam Trail Rating: Moderate-Strenuous For my first hike back in Colorado after the Wyoming trip, I picked right back up where I left off with my Wilderness Area tour. I’ve mentioned the Lost Creek Wilderness in many of my entries, but this is the first time that I’ve actually entered it. The wilderness area is a vaguely boomerang-shaped, 120,700 acre plot of land in the northern part of the Pike National Forest. Lost Creek stretches over three distinct mountain ranges, the Platte River Mountains, the Kenosha Mountains, and the Tarryall Mountains. There are about 100 miles of trails, but only a few of the trailheads are easily accessible from major roads. Lost Creek itself gets its name from a series of sections where it disappears underground making it difficult to ... read more

Well finally at Denver after a 20hr bus ride. My body is aching!!! Had a bit of a nightmare bus companion for the whole way! This guy was in the queue beside me at Chicago and i did my best to avoid him on the bus but he ended up sitting in front of me. He was a right charmer, thought he was a bit of a ladies man. One memorable chat up line to any girl that would listen - "come on over to my cadillac, there's room for 2". Honestly he was eyeing up anything that moved and was going up and down the bus talking and singing to everyone. A few people told him to shut up but he wasnt bothered. He'd been on the bus for 3 days right enough and ... read more