Day 01 – Monday, October 11, 2010 – Trip to Southern Colorado’s Highway of Legends – PART 1 What a wonderful fall day for a day trip to Southern Colorado! We left home at 9:09 under cloudy skies and about 46°. We made a brief stop at Costco for gas and we were on our way south on Interstate 25. There was a dusting of snow on Pikes Peak and the golden cottonwood trees along ...
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Day 01 – Monday, October 11, 2010 – Trip to Southern Colorado’s Highway of Legends – PART 2 The gorgeous autumn colors contrasting with the clear blue skies made for a perfect day in Colorado. The rock formations were very distinctive and we stopped to take many photos of the outcroppings standing straight out of the hills. Profile Rock and the Devil’s Staircase along the Legends ...
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Day 01 – Monday, October 11, 2010 – Trip to Southern Colorado’s Highway of Legends – PART 3 We stopped at tiny Cokedale, the coal company town where coal was baked in long rows of huge ovens. The intense heat baked out the moisture, impurities, and made the high grade coal some of the best mined in all of the west. Ending our scenic byways tour at 3:30, we arrived in ...
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