Retirement! Here We Come. (Well, Don is back to work)
by Vicky Showalter

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Colorado

Next stop - Colorado Springs. We landed home for about two hours and started our drive to Colorado. First night we stopped in Omaha and then finished the trip the next day. Before Don reports to the Olympic Training Center for a mini camp with his USA Team we are spending 3 days/nights in Cascade in the mountains. We are staying at the Rocky Mountain Lodge.

This is NOT where we are staying!


This is our lodge!

The three course breakfast was yummy!


Jeep Tour on the first day.






Don with "Curly" our jeep driver.

The road!  Hairpin curves, washboard bumps, rocky, and then snow!

We were up 10,000 feet!  Beautiful.




Pike's Peak via the cog railway on the second day






Garden of the Gods for our third day


Steamboat Rock

Balanced Rock


Kissing Camels



A view of Pike's Peak from the Garden of the Gods.

Sunset over Pike's Peak taken from the Olympic Training Center.

We headed to Denver for several days/nights after Don finished with his USA Team mini-camp. On the way we stopped at the Air Force Academy.



We stayed at the historic Brown Palace in a beautiful corner room suite!

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