A couple of years ago I took a drive from Denver to look for some fall colors. Iwrote about mysearch and how I drove up and around on a section of the Peak-to-Peak Highway through a couple of different Colorado counties. Now, while the leaves were just at that right state of gold, I wanted […]
Driving up Pikes Peak
O beautiful for spacious skies, It was a beautiful day as I drove up Pikes Peak with my friends Brian and Keith. The two are brothers that I’ve known since my college days at the University of Minnesota. They were out visiting for the weekend and wanted to go to Colorado Springs to travel to […]
Touring the Colorado National Monument
My adventures to and from Las Vegas for my birthday took me to a great many interesting and wonderful places. I’ve been considering how I should write about it all as I saw and did so many things that it’s really quite impossible to put it down in one post unless I want it to […]
Hiking the Garden of the Gods
There are a handful of places that I seem to visit each year in Colorado, whether it be by choice or chance. It’s almost as if I’m drawn to them as their beauty eclipses any other lovely spot in this great state. One of the places that I drop in on annually, if not more, […]
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 […]
Aspen Hunting on the Peak-to-Peak
This past week the Rocky Mountain News ran a special section on good spots to see Colorado’s golden Aspen trees by driving, hiking and biking. I was interested in getting out to see the colors already, so this was all the extra incentive I needed. I had never driven on the Peak-to-Peak Highway (Colorado Highway […]

