Over the river, and through the woods.

Not to grandmother's house... but to ancestor's homesteads I found....

Ok, Today was the longest trip by far...Colorado Springs to Salida, CO! That's 100 miles! Not to mention all the back roads, high roads, and off roads, and winding roads........ 

"Where we're going we don't need roads"... 

Oh yeah........ we do.

Ok, so to start... I woke at 6:15 am...

headed out at 7:30 am, forgot my purse....

re-headed out at 8:15 am after returning home....

Canon City (pronounced Canyon)

Took that train, not today, It's worth every penny!!!  

I would love to take this helicopter ride someday... 4-8-12 minute trip at $10-$11 a minute.

Ok, I was trying to snag 12 or so geocaches... and 1 was at the gate to "SKY LINE DRIVE"

Sounds .......cool.... No???

Didn't find the cache... and no where to turn around... so Up to the Sky Line Drive I shall go....

BAD Move Keri!!!!

This road has no sides in some places... on either side... so you are suspended like on a road... I SWEAR!

and if you do get to a turn off ... Looking down....

I white-knuckled and prayed all the way to the end... and on 1 turnoff...

I called my Mommy!!!!

NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

Cool "Holy" Rock...hee hee

Along Rte 50 and the Arkansas River.

Now I headed past the Royal Gorge.... why Bore you all again... and headed to Salida....

These were.....somewhere... I forget now where.

Tried to find a geocache here.. 

Look at the dead center of the photo
(where the short tree is)

it bends to the right... this is a road to what was once a homestead.

Click on photo to make larger, red star is where I parked and walked to the area marked by yellow pin.

I didn't find the cache
(I didn't find 11 of the caches I planned to get) 

But I did find the remnants of
a mountain lion's kill of a deer....

TIME TO GO... I aint Dessert!!!!

 Air Mail!!!

I Love old R.R Tracks....

Stopped to have some lunch and snag yet ANOTHER cache which was also missing but I got a great burger / fries / peanut butter cookies for puppy, and a strawberry Sobe!!! Mmmmm

On The Road again...

On CR 69

I found these on a homeowners property, he came out as I was pulling up... 

He granted me permission to take these pics.

Cool Guy From Texas!!!

Scamp needed to stretch his legs, I needed to pee.... 

He got his paws wet... and a belly full of the Arkansas River....

 Robison Mansion

8 PM I am home, Puppy's sound asleep, and 2 hours later (as I type) my body is still "vibrating" like I am on the road still.... 

BAD FEELING!