tisha's posts with tag: roadtrip
|  | You've seen Clayton's and Mom's photos... and my new camera is nice, but not as nice as theirs... But it was a great chance to try it out, anyway. :)
The structure at the top of the mountain is the old snack bar and gift shop, built I belive in the days of the WPA, along with the road. (It was once the highest snack bar in the country). It burned down in the 70s (the parts that weren't stone, anwyway) , and the forest service decided to just turn it into a viewing platform rather than reconstruct it. Not only is the stone structure left behind beautiful, there are interesting bits of evidence of the interior structures that burned away...
You'll also see the gardens we stopped at partway up, views, a few animals we spotted along the way, and maybe even a glimpse of my parents climbing the last stretch towards the peak. My gimpy ankle (I had a fight with a stubborn weed last week. the weeds won) and I stayed at parking lot level to take the photos... |
| | More from our trip to Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. It's truly amazing how the view changes every time the road turns (which, being in the mountains, it does frighteningly frequently, and sharply). For some reason, I found myself fascinated with the idea of trying to catch this in my side-view mirror. (Convertibles put crazy thoughts in your head. Like that, and like driving through a snowy national park in March with the top down...) |
| | Sunday, we went to Estes Park for a cowboy poetry festival we never found, and for our semi-regular "just to make Mom jealous and cause we can" visit to Rocky Mountain National Park (one of my, and Mom's, favorite places in world.)
since there's still a lot of snow up there, the herds of elk were down in the plains, the snow was just starting to melt off, and the crowds were small. (But we still managed to run into a fellow Northwestern alum with his family.) |
| Start: | Feb 10, '07 | | End: | Feb 14, '07 | | Location: | Copper, Colorado |
Heading to Cooper Mountain with friends to learn to ski & snowboard, snowshoe, tube... I'm skipping the skiing (been there done that) but plan to take advantage for relaxation. If anyone has advice on neat stuff to do while we're in Copper Mountain or the outer area, please feel free to jump in!
| | New years day we headed south, and found Bishop's Castle, in the mountains near Pueblo, CO. Mr. Bishop started building the castle in the mid-60s, based only on his experience apprenticing for his father, who was an ironworker.
The castle is incredible, with stonework, ironwork, and some beautiful stained glass...and the man is still working on it, adding a little every year according to a blueprint that exists only in his head.
The man is .. well... interesting. Dad and I got collared to listen to his rantings for awhile... he's not totally nuts, but he has some very definite views and could be considered a little paranoid... |
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