Extended Stay America - Colorado Springs - West
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Catching up with old friends...
... though...) The Manitou Cliff Dwellings were neat to walk through (the girls loved climbing ladders set up that the Indians may? have used something similar to get around these homes - just watch your head!) Experiencing real COLD once again on this trip (and myself and two girls having the chapped hands/faces to prove it!), I can't imagine what it would have been like to live out in the mountains (and desert) in such primitive times, and try to stay ...
Mountain Lows, Mountain Highs
... drove back down and into Manitou springs. Jym told me that a Manitou is a spirit that dwells in objects. Bit of trivia for you. He wanted to look in a comic book shop there so I took a small nap in the car and listened to the church bells ring. Then we went to another shop in old Colorado City down the road then back to the hotel. I was freezing. I don’t know what happened but I was never so cold inside. Like deep in my bones. I mean it was ...
Night 26: Over the Rockies
... through here, but the drought made it tough to fund much water anywhere. I hoped Andrew would give up on his idea, and doubted he would. He was no longer the boy who whined on every little hike asking to be picked up. On this trip he had pulled us up and down mountains on paths I would never take except for his insistance. But the heat got to him. We were baking from the sun above a d beneath our feet. Andrew, and not I, suggested we try this another day. We joined Mom ...
Day to relax
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Katy was staying with a co-worker and so we went to pick her up to go to Sprint with Jane. Monty and I went to the health food store Sunflower Market to get my Kombucha Tea.....Then it was off to dinner at the Pueblo Vieko restaurant, we had a great dinner....
So all in all it was fairly relaxing and a lot of fun to be with my Bro.......On to Pueblo, CO about 62 miles and staying with Jane's niece......
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Last things
... were still in a previous century but reached no conclusion as usual. They obviously don't mind people staying for long periods of time as there is often a game of chess happening at one of the tables.
We finished our drinks and wandered across the road into the Osburn Gift Shop to try on some more rings. They had some rings made with Black Hills gold with designs ...