Our much awaited trip has commenced. We left Anchorage last night and landed in Colorado this morning. Airplanes make the trip easy and fast.
We rented our car and drove to our friends house where we moved our belongings in and prepped for a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. Along the way we stopped at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Estes Park before finding a spot in the park for a picnic. We ate our lunch and then drove up...and up...and up to the alpine area of the park. We saw a massive bull elk along the side of the road and a large herd of cows, calves, and young bulls high in the alpine. We stopped at a number of pull-outs to look at the view and finally pulled in to Alpine Meadows Visitor Center. This is a place of immense beauty and scarce oxygen. All of us from sea level were seemed desperate for air. We walked around the Visitor Center and then headed back.
When we got back we all went out to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant and ate a delicious dinner and reveled in the fact that...our trip began in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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It was a fun day my friends. It was great to see you and even better to go adventuring, even if it wasn't ever very far from the road.
Really liked getting to spend some time with Emily and Laura. This may be the high point of our summer.
Travel well my friends.
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