Most know her as “The Unsinkable” Molly Brown from the Titanic voyage, but she actually preferred to go by Maggie or Margaret, at least according to my tour guide at the Molly Brown House in Denver. Just a few short blocks from the Colorado State Capitol, along tree lined Pennsylvania Street, sits the Brown home. […]
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Touring the Colorado State Capitol
The free guided tour of the Colorado State Capitol Building is free for a reason. Yet I, unlike many of the other people in my group, stayed on until the end. I just waited and hoped that there would be some interesting historical nugget the tour guide would throw us that I knew I wouldn’t […]
Driving the Trail Ridge
Since I moved to Colorado nine years ago, almost to the day, I’ve wanted to drive Trail Ridge Road, the highest continual road in the country at a maximum elevation of 12,183 feet. And finally, today, I did just that. It was a long day with a lot of driving, but the views on Trail […]
Hiking Castlewood Canyon
With the Cherry Creek running through it, Castlewood Canyon sits just south of Franktown, Colorado, a distant suburb of Denver. And while it’s possible to hike from one end of the canyon to the other, the park is split into two separte areas, east and west, with their own entrances. I found the views along […]
Visiting Bent’s Old Fort
“At a distance it presents a handsome appearance, being castle-like with towers at its angles…the design…answering all purposes of protection, defense, and as a residence.” ~ George R. Gibson, 1846, soldier The last stop on our southeastern Colorado daytrip was the National Historic Site of Bent’s Old Fort. Sitting on the north side of the […]
Touring Junkrassic Park
Bob Pearce, my daytrip buddy, somehow found out about this place called Junkrassic Park, which sits just a bit northeast of Bent’s Old Fort on County Road JJ in Cheraw, Colorado. It’s Johnnie Allen’s private residence, but it’s also a place of bizarre wonder that is definitely worth seeing. It’s not only entertaining and intriguing, […]
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