Leaving Colorado :o(

October 2nd, 20!3

Partly cloudy
Lat/Lon 39.6N 106.3W

I'm sad to be leaving Colorado.

I've been so impressed with it.  The people are friendly and open minded, and there are so many different types of climate and landscape.  What a great package!

The best part is that you can find all the different landscapes within a hundred mile radius of almost anywhere!  The ONLY thing that could make Colorado better is an ocean.

(Some of the worst highway and freeway surfaces I've ever been on tho.  But that's ok, the scenery is worth it.)



Another jaunt over the Continental Divide.  :o)













Then into Breckenridge, CO,... where you can catch the chairlift from the grocery store parking lot.

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 From Breckenridge,  we continued through the mountains enjoying the glorious colors.


I swear these photos were not 'touched up'.
I'm starting to like aspens a lot more that I did before this trip.

This is Vale, Co.
Breckenridge and Vale were both quaint little towns, in the summer.  I'm glad we weren't there during ski season tho.

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Leaving the Rockies, following the Colorado River toward the Utah border.

I think this is where the Colorado River 'practiced' before it when to the Grand Canyon to work on it's masterpiece.

Oh, and these last 2 pics are kinda cool.  Colorado puts 8 ft fences along the freeways to keep the deer out.  But in the event that some get in, they have these 'deer escapes' about every quarter to half mile or so.  These are places that are built up from the freeway side where the deer can walk up, then jump off to freedom.   Easy to get out, but not easy to get in.  Yet another reason why I really like Colorado.