Backlog: Colorado Springs, CO

Monday May 28th:
Upon arrival in the great springs the "Rocksdale" family gave us a warm welcome.

Jake and I crashed a bit and then set out for the sights. I finally visited the great "Whit's End" at Focus on the Family that all Adventure's in Odyssey fans should know. Sadly Focus was closed because of Memorial Day but we had a good time anyway.

Ryan and Tara gave us a great tour of the area, local coffee, and a trek around Garden of the God's. http://www.gardenofgods.com/ Its really an interesting place, with strange rock formations that make you feel like dinosaurs are going to peek around the largest ones. We've got a live Planet Earth video we'll have up sometime. Photos will have to do for now.


Afterwards we went to see Pirates 3 - I want to get married on a pirate ship in the middle of a battle - comment if you do too. Then we ended the night of with a great time at Jack Quinn's Irish Pub downtown. My good friend Paul came out from the Air Force academy and we had a grand time catching up on life.
Jake and I ended the night testing our new camping gear in the Rocksdales backyard.

Tuesday May 29th:
We packed everything up and said goodbye to the Rocksdale family. We decided to take back roads from the Springs up to Frisco. Colorado was in its prime along the way. We passed through beautiful country and got attacked by rain and hail at several points. We had a nice lunch and break in Frisco - which is a small upscale town with a really cool lake and boating community - a mini-San Fransisco.
One of our last adventures in CO we stopped at a 50's diner and ordered apple pie, vanilla ice cream and coffee. We took that time to figure out where in the world we were going to stay. We kind of decided on a camp site around Moab, Utah but it was getting late and we really didn't know if we'd make it in time or anything like that. We also picked up our key supplies of peanut butter, jelly and bread. Oh and the needed plastic utensils.

I think that's all, but there's probably something cool I'm leaving off.

Cheers for now.