After the day in Colorado we returned to are odd little motel as we wound need to get up very early to get us all to the airport. A fitting last picture for the vacation is Mt. Rainier as seen from the flight before landing in Seattle.
Mt Rainier
It has taken me so long to go trough my photos and upload all the posts with captions from this vacation that this weekend the Bostonians are flying our to Seattle to visit again.
The last full day of our trip we spend in Colorado Springs. At this point in the trip we had hiked over 40 miles and thousands of feet of elevation; we were surprisingly worn out for the end of a vacation. We still manged to drag ourselves out to experience this new city.
First stop; the Garden of the Gods.
Garden of the Gods.
People, please don’t take pictures with your iPads.
Some crazy big rocks.
Seriously odd topography.
Feels like walking around on mars.
We had just watched The Martian the previous night and walking around these giant red rocks really made me feel like I was on Mars, a thousand years in the future and the space tourists are all looking around and taking pictures of where Watney was trapped.
The ‘Balanced’ Rock
Some light hiking a little ways away.
The last trail of the trip.
Garden of the Gods seen from a distance.
Afterwards we went to the Colorado Spring Money Museum. They had the motherload of coin collections.
Really tiny coins.
Most interesting thing (to me) in the Money Museum.
The museum also had an exhibit of sunk treasure and the most interesting part was the models of the ships from which these coins were recovered.
More waterfalls!
Have to go bowling at lease once.
New personal best!
Breakfast at the Lodge.
Nature!
A scene from the morning hike.
Green Mountain trail.
Grand Lake’s Big Meadow.
Beautiful skies today, and lots of sun screen.
Adam’s Falls.
The gangs all here.
Vertical panoramas!
Walking around Grand Lake, now to find a saloon.
Heading back to Denver. Faster to go under the mountain.
Should we stop to say hi to Barry Allen?
A Clash of Coasts 