our final week in colorado was spent at rifle gap state park, just a bit north of rifle. aside from our trip to hanging rock and aspen on our first day, we didn’t do much, besides recover from several weeks of friends, family and constant adventure. first things first, we settled back into some routine. […]
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maroon bells and hanging lake.
once we were sufficiently settled into our campsite at rifle gap state park, we got a good night’s sleep and loaded up the next morning to head to a really popular hiking trail. hanging lake is a pretty intense 1 mile hike up 1000 feet to get to a beautiful turquoise lake and waterfall that […]
train rides and tent camping.
after derek and i took our excursion to twin lakes, i couldn’t shake the idea that we would camp there. we decided that we would leave friday and head down, spend one night and then get back on track to rifle on saturday. once that was decided, the grandlidboms decided to stay a little bit […]
vail, with the grandlidboms.
after denver, we set off to meet derek’s parents for a week in vail. we were able to park our camper in a lot nearby (for free!) and spent the week in a resort, with a dishwasher, spacious shower and bath tub, garbage disposal, cable, a pool, a huge fridge, and a bunch of various […]
denver-ish week.
sorry for the slacktitude in posting. we had a pretty busy week visiting friends and family in denver. then we were with family (and without computer) in vail. and now we are in rifle, colorado, with terrible internet, so uploading pictures takes a backseat to derek getting to do his job. he went in town […]
denver botanic gardens(alt title: a million pictures of flowers)
after much deliberation and planning, we decided to use derek’s day off on memorial day for a trip to the denver botanic gardens. and as a bonus, my friend chris, who you’ll meet in a future post, let us use her guest passes to get in for free!! i was pleasantly surprised with how much […]
roxborough state park.
when we arrived at the chatfield state park campground, bright and early on sunday morning, we discovered we couldn’t check in until 1 pm. so, we parked the camper in a parking lot and headed out to find adventure. several people had recommended roxborough state park, which was nearby, so we thought we would waste […]
mt. evans layover.
so. there was a gap in our reservations between colorado springs and chatfield state park (near denver). long story. but the main theme was, it was memorial day and a lot of places aren’t even open yet and the ones that are are jam packed. so, we found ourselves in a denver city park outside […]
colorado springs, the downtime.
our two weeks in colorado springs were some of our favorites. we went on a lot of adventures and i got to see a couple of old friends. we kept busy enough that my official “downtime” post is even more boring than usual. we settled in on saturday and kicked off our adventures on the […]
garden of the gods, round two.
before we left colorado springs last week, we made another trip out to garden of the gods park. we wanted to check out a little trail that lead to the siamese twins rock formation, which forms a perfect little window to view pike’s peak through. so, after derek got off work one day, we rolled […]