Colorado– category –

Water played to focal point of our last stop, but this time rock was our theme.  Specifically, thousands upon thousands of dinosaur fossils that formed when an ancient river bed flooded after some sort of disaster, trapping a treasure tr...

Having explored a lesser known but glorious canyon, we set the front bumper towards the Northwest corner of Colorado for a later exit into Utah.  With all the volcanic activity around us and the numerous days we spent camping, however, w...

We hesitantly left a town we'd easily call home to start our trek back West across Utah, Nevada, and California, cutting through central Colorado South of I-70.  The Rockies are simply gorgeous, but during the summer, like many forests i...

A slice of regional history behind us, we drove into Boulder for a week of relaxing and laundry with a pet sitting gig we had arranged.  We drove right next to the Rockies the whole time, with gorgeous mountains to the left and the expan...

After one man's private enterprise and work of passion, we camped in the mountains South outside of Colorado Springs for a night before heading up towards Denver.  On our way down from the mountains we passed another private enterprise, ...

While the Great Sand Dunes are a bizarre natural phenomenon, Bishop Castle is an artificial one.  The castle is gorgeous and a masterpiece of time and energy in the truest for of the word.  It's the life work of Jim Bishop and those who ...

We drove through Taos after Tent Rocks and were so enraptured by the Pueblo tour there that we hardly took any photos.  Oops.  Suffice to say, it's an extremely interesting tour and well worth the stop.  Taos the town itself is pretty ne...

Thoroughly stunned by the ship, our next stop took us further Northeast into Colorado and the town of Cortez.  The town is so popular as a base of operations that it was rather hard to find a place to stay, but that might have been compo...