After our walk this morning we stopped to say goodbye to Dave and Renee and to get some photos of them and their home. We suspect we'll meet again, at "Camp Horizons" if not elsewhere.
We drove from Rawlins, WY, to Fort Collins, CO, today. On the way we passed Laramie and Cheyenne, names that embody the myth of the old west for us. We are spending the night at a large rest area which is adjacent to the Colorado Welcome Center. It's an unusual welcome center because it also includes such things as an environmental education program of the University of Colorado.
A sculpture of a horse stands out front--a "painted" horse, with images of rodeo cowboys.
Ken took this photo of the Majestic pretty much alone in the large parking area, but later in the evening we were joined by trucks running their generators, so it's far less peaceful.
We walked along a trail through a wildlife preserve behind the welcome center. A sign suggested tht we might see deer and herons and black headed and red winged blackbirds. We actually saw a rabbit and some geese flying overhead, but it was a nice place to walk. We saw mountain peaks along the skyline. One of the shirts the welcome center had for sale included the quotation from John Muir: "The mountains are calling, and I must go."
We saw lots of rain showers on the horizon as we drove today. A couple of times we even had brief showers where we were, but mostly the sky was just spitting at us.
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