Colorado is known for their many over 14000 feet mountains, including the famous Pike's Peek at 14,115. We took the COG RR up and loved it! That is to be our last adventure in Colorado. But we had one more unexpected adventure early Saturday morning. I will tell you about it at the end of this Blog.
So enjoy the pictures from Pike's Peek. There were others who drove up and those who hiked. We liked our method best!
Enjoy the pictures --
Looks like we are driving into a Swiss Village --
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| Now houses a Historical Society and Museum Awesome just from the outside! |
Now arriving at the Depot --
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| Beautiful Pine and Aspen |
We passed a couple other trains on their return trip, and on our return trip we passed one going up which had one of the Scout Troops that we met yesterday at the Air Force Academy.
We are now above 9000 feet and soon to be above the tree line. Trees do not grow above this line as the ground is frozen from a very shallow level, year round. Thus very little plant life above this line. And there is much smaller stone now. However, there is wild life known for this high terrain.
Now we watch the cars and trains returning from the summit, and the snow is still there in patches --
Summit at last. We had enough time to walk the perimeter to take pictures, go to the restrooms and shop in the souvenir shop --
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| Gary, at the end of the line! |
Our train waiting for our return trip. Watch the weather change just as we board!!
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| One of two lakes that we could see. |
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| Rain turned to sleet!! The temperature and wind changed dramatically in minutes!! |
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| The Aspens are not individual trees according to our conductor. They are of one organism and grow from one to another continuously. |
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| The water ran along the tracks on one side or the other most of our trip. |
Trip over, now time for dinner and softer chairs!!
We stopped in Old Town Colorado Springs at the Mason Jar. Good food and plenty to take home for another day. The crowd arrived shortly after we did. We were early but hungry. We had to wait a couple minutes for 4 pm to get our baked potatoes.
Now to tell you what happened this morning, when we started out on our first trek to Kansas. We did get an early start and stopped for gas fill-up and then to connect the car and motor home. Our trek begins and the roads that Gary chose were good and traffic wasn't bad. We avoided I-25 except for the few miles.
We came upon a traffic light that turned red and I had to stop rather quickly. When I started up, the tow bar broke and I had to get off the road. When I went back to check it out, the safety cables were stretched and the tow bar was broken off at the hitch part. I disconnected it from the CRV and put it into the back of the CRV. After that Audrey drove the CRV and I drove the motor home. We made it to Hays, KS and are stopped for the night at Wal-Mart. We will finish in the morning with about 200 more miles to go to Lawrence, KS, driving separately again! Keep us in your prayers.
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