Things still seem to be moving slow, but I often forget that I'm super excited about EVERYthing and therefore become very anxious if I'm not doing anything. So, one morning I decided that I would wake up early enough to catch the sunrise at Garden of the Gods.
[morning at Garden of the Gods]It was nice to get back on the road again. After the trip out here, going to Alabama with Katie and that horrible ordeal after Thanksgiving, I think I might have been having a bit of roadtrip withdrawal. =)
[going down into Royal Gorge]Sunrise doesn't last forever, so I was done with that by 8am. It was supposed to rain/snow after 3pm, so I decided I had time to keep going south to Royal Gorge. Found a little ma-n-pa place with a Sunday buffet (delicioso!) and got to the gorge just as it was opening at 10am.
Bummer that the sky started getting blanket-like overcast. I managed to get that interesting photo with the halo cloud on the incline lift. Haha, definitely more crude than the inclines in Pittsburgh or Japan. Check out the cage contraption in the album.
[Phantom Canyon Rd, aka CO67]I love Colorado! Two lane roads are 65mph, interstates 75mph and there are official unpaved state highways. Took an alternate route on the way home, winding along a historic byway that was formerly a railroad during the gold rush
I think my car hates me now. It was well over 30 miles of unpaved, one lane road with ample curves and incline, no guardrails and several areas covered in packed snow. I didn't crawl through it, either. ;)
[snowcaps somewhere by Cripple Creek]I popped out the other side of the canyon with an open view of Pikes Peak and a line of snowcapped mountains. Oh boy, I never get sick of that sight!
Going this way added an extra hour or so to my way home, of which I stopped and napped in a Burger King parking lot for an hour before reaching Colorado Springs and there were snow flurries when I got back to Denver. Oh, the adventures to come!
