Last morning in Colorado springs

After a restless night with a sick puppy, we'll be breaking camp and rolling north in a few hours for the next phase of ""Our Great Adventure 2010"

Read about sick puppy's here: http://firstgens.com/forum/22/1035.html?start=30

After five days of Carol having blog nightmares, I'm gonna put some pics up here and on firstgens, what's a vacation saga without pics?

The Turd, hooked up and ready to roll on out of here.

Night one's campsite, Lake Anita State Park in western Iowa.

Garden of the Gods Campground in Colorado Springs. Commercial campground, packed us in kinda tight, but a nice facity, good water, even cable TV.

We saw this lil fella yesterday, while cruising out toward the gold rush town of cripple creek. We stopped at a pullout along the road and he came right up to the car, begging for handouts. he showed no fear, and hung around for quite a while. I'd call this a learned behavior for sure.

Main Street Cripple Creek Colorado. This was a huge part of the gold rush days, old abandoned mines all around the town. Kinda sad today, mostly seedy lil casinos and old folks killing what time they have left feeding one armed bandits.

spotted this herd of deer on a ridge, siloetted by the setting sun, on the way back from cripple creek.

Same spot, facing the other direction.

Just a cool lil shot while hiking in the woods.

A small waterfall along the same trail.

Garden of the Gods State Park

It was hotter than hades the day we went into Garden of the Gods. Here's Riley, he found some shade and decided he was gonna take it easy for a while.

So now you're all caught up to date. It's Tuesday morning, we're gonna get some pancakes and sausage going for breakfast, get showered and dressed, clean up the campsite and the bus, and break camp and roll north. I'll check in with you'all later!

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