6 Great Days in #Colorado! Day 6: Dinosaurs! And More Wine! Day 6 was the “fly home” day of our Southwest Airlines sweeps win holiday, but before we struck out for the airport, we had one last Golden thing we had to squeeze in: Dino Tracks! Golden is home to Read more
6 Great Days in #Colorado! Day 5: Manitou Springs: The Cog Railroad, Beer, Wine, & Water #Railfans that we are, our penultimate day in Colorado was spent in Manitou Springs, about an hour from Golden, riding the newly restored Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway up and down the mountain, Read more
6 Great Days in #Colorado! Day 4: Fly-Fishing! Day 4 of our 6 great days in Colorado was a total treat for me: fly-fishing for trout on the Platte River! Our inn/home, the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre, in Landgraff, McDowell County, West Virginia, is right on Elkhorn Creek, which is Read more
Day 3 of our 6 great days in Colorado started with us moving hotels again, but for the last time this trip! As I wrote in my previous blog posts, this trip was made possible by my winning Southwest Airline’s “Breathtaking Beats” Sweepstakes, which included round-trip flights for two people Read more
Our second day in Colorado started with our moving to the super-trendy Origin Red Rocks Hotel, in preparation for the Midland Concert that evening. As I wrote in my previous blog post about our first day in Colorado, this trip was made possible by my winning Southwest Airline’s “Breathtaking Beats” Read more
The last time Dan and I had a holiday was a great, 3-week road trip out to Colorado to go elk hunting almost exactly 2 years ago, which I wrote about on this blog… As luck would have it, I recently won us a trip back to Colorado from Southwest Read more
Our freezer full of Yum-O elk, on December 8 we started our road trip back home to West Virginia, seeing a lot of Very beautiful Colorado countryside: We stopped first at Palisade (remember- I made Dan promise…), so we could get to at least a few of this town’s many Read more
Today (12/11/20), on our wonderful 3-week long Road Trip from WV to Colorado and back, was Gold Mine Day, and we drove to the historic (since 1875!) and operational Phoenix Gold Mine: https://www.phoenixgoldmine.com/, where we got a tour of the mine from Dave, the mine’s owner and operator, and I Read more
NOTE: This is a post about elk hunting, and how we got our freezer full of YUM-O elk meat (which was not connected to the hunt, BTW…), and has photos of all that entailed. Remember that the meat you eat was once a live (and often beautiful) creature, and that Read more
The next morning of our Road Trip from West Virginia to Colorado (12/2), we happily left Denver as early as possible (Hotel Teatro’s “Nickel” restaurant being closed, of course), and drove west towards Grand Junction. Within minutes of leaving Denver we finally- and delightedly- saw the Colorado of our dreams Read more