the road

Our last stop on this trip was Denver Botanic Gardens. There is a large conservatory there featuring tropical plants, and it seems that most...

Glen Eyrie began as the estate of William Jackson Palmer, a railroad magnate and founder of the city of Colorado Springs. He built it about ...

  It was Ray's thought to take the "scenic" road from the place we were staying in Canon City up to Cripple Creek. From there,...

The bridge above the canyon We had early reservations on the Royal Gorge train that runs along the Arkansas river through a canyon whose she...

We spent the day meandering down the Million Dollar Highway in Colorado. The name came from a comment made at a planning meeting in 1921. At...

Within a few minutes of setting out on our day's travels, I got something in my eye--it started as just an irritation, then grew to be p...

  After Grand Mesa, we drove north to Colorado National Monument. Temperatures were reaching near 100, and we wisely decided not to hike, bu...