Colorado - 1

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Another of our most favourite states where we feel at home in is Colorado

From Kansas you enter Colorado climbing a high desert plain also known as 1-70

Limon is the real first taste of Colorado from our point of view

We were stranded once for three days in Limon because of 1-70 being closed due to snowy icy weather

It is just past Limon you first see the Rockies staring back at you

There is a short cut from Limón to Colorado Springs we have taken on occasion

Past Limon the antelope begin to appear at first sparsely then multitudes

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They are a beautiful grazing animal that runs and jumps constantly

From Kansas you can also enter Colorado from Lamar going to Pueblo, Pagosa Springs and on westward

Let’s go to Denver first though on this trip

Denver, home of the Rockies, and, the best theatre center in the world

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We have been to many Rockies games and always had great seats

They offer us old people half price seats to almost everything

We spent a neat weekend with dear friends and visited 6 Flags over Denver

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Mount Evans and its 14000 foot road, mountain goats and big horn sheep are nearby

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Denver truly is the entrance to the Western United States

The Botanical Garden has exquisite flowers

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and the most wonderful Japanese Garden and the "tree house"

How can you go to Denver and not visit the "Whole Foods" with their selection of fine deserts

Speaking of food, you must eat at Le Central and if you can afford it, Strings both the finest of places to have a meal

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There is a Mexican Restaurant where divers dive into a pool as you eat and watch

The experience is great, the food so so as is the price

You can shop all day and all night if you wish, drive to the Air Force Academy or visit the Garden of the Gods

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A very long time ago I bought a string of pearls for Mother's Day for Linda in Colorado Springs at a downtown jewellery store

I suspect it will take me another few days to write about Colorado

There is the drive past Grand Junction, the incredible Poudre River and moose drive and Rocky Mountain National Park

I will take you to some of them tomorrow

John