We got up in a little bit of a rush this morning, but we were able to get underway around 9:30am! After fueling up, we hit the road, and I’m not sure the other fellows were prepared for the view they got coming over the Rocky Mountains today.
Just east of Glenwood Springs is Glenwood Canyon, a beautiful spot where they had to hack out the rock to get the freeway through to Glenwood Springs. There is just enough room in the canyon for 4 lanes of freeway, a river and some railroad tracks. That’s IT (note the cool picture Brian took)! Then we drove over to the vicinity of Vail, Colorado and start climbing up and up and up!
We stopped in the Georgetown, CO area...where the pictures you see are from...and then on to drop off Brian at Denver International Airport, which is on the FAR northeast side of Denver. Unfortunately his flight was in the early evening, so he spent a less than exciting afternoon trying to catch a standby flight home unsuccessfully.
Robert, Johnny and I went south to Colorado Springs and visited Garden of the Gods Park (I need to point out that last night I said it was a national park, and it IS NOT!) It is in reality owned by the city of Colorado Springs. It is the only spot on this trip where we have all visited before. It was very hot, and a little disappointing, because they have closed a LOT of the areas you used to be able to scramble around the rocks and climb. But, we got some cool pics and then did a couple of interviews of each other for the video.
We are just about to cross into Texas as I write this, and eager for home...
We have arrived in Amarillo -- it is 10:15pm, 11:15pm back here in good ‘ol Texas. We look to be home sometime around 5pm on Saturday. I have finished the video and am working on uploading to itunes so ya’ll can download it for free. Check back in a day or so on the blog and I will add the internet link.
Love to all,
Ryan
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