Colorado Springs - Denver & Great Weather

Hello & Greetings from Denver:

We've spent the last 2 weeks in Colorado Springs and Denver and have enjoyed some wonderful weather, good golf and great sights.

The Springs is chocked full of things to do. We visited the Air Force Academy, a cave dwelling museum and walked around some really neat, eclectic small towns with interesting shops. Saw Pikes Peak and the US Ice Skating Hall of Fame.

Air Force Academy Chapel.




Pike's Peak.

Cliff Dwelling Museum.

There's a park here called Garden of the Gods and is much like Sedona with red rocks and beautiful vistas.

The area is only 60 miles south of Denver and the sprawl is beginning to work it's way together. The weather has been fantastic with low humidity, warm days and cool nights. After a week in the Springs we moved onto Denver.

Denver is a sprawling metropolis with spectacular views of the Rocky mountains and an active and vibrant population. Denver and the surrounding 'burbs are honeycombed with bike and jogging paths as well as open space parks in the shadow of the great mountains, still snow covered this early in the season.

We'll actually be in Denver for just over 2 weeks, but will fly back east for a visit with family over the Memorial Day weekend.

Downtown Boulder pedestrian Mall



The tulips in full bloom.

At the summit above Boulder.

Denver has a world renowned Art Museum and we enjoyed a fun afternoon exploring the exhibits. Of course, Denver is home to Mile High Stadium and Coors Field. A side trip to Boulder (only 30 miles away) brings you to the home of Coors beer. Boulder is the home of Colorado University and a young college town with a great pedestrian mall in the middle of downtown.

The Denver Art Museum

Nearby in the foothills of the Rockies is a small town called Black Hawk and home to a dozen casino's amid the abandoned gold and silver mines. Quite neat and none are owned by Native Americans.

I was fortunate to get in two rounds of golf and the front nine last Friday earned me a personal best 38.

We leave in the morning for Philly. We'll stop at our daughter Kristin's place in Allentown and then onto LI for a visit with Katie and Kenny and the grandkids. A wedding and fire department dinner will round out the weekend. We'll be back on Monday and head north to Calgary on Wednesday.

We'll talk again soon.

Gene & Laurie