In June of 2004 Ritsuko and I went on a vacation to Colorado. We took a tour of the Coors Brewery before we went to the Red Sox vs. Colorado Rockies baseball game on the day we arrived. This is the Coors Brewery lunchroom. Here the workers are helping themselves to some cold drafts...
We went up to Rocky Mountain National Park for two days. Running right through the park is a 48 mile road that goes up through the mountains between two towns, as high as 13,000 feet at one part. On the way back, the visibility was only about 15 feet, and there were no guardrails on the winding roads, just a two thousand foot vertical drop. That was definitely the scariest driving I've ever done! This is a view in Rocky Mountain National Park looking down on a couple of different ecosystems that spread thousands of feet down through the valley.
Some stalactites inside a cave...
We saw lots of giant petrified Sequoia stumps at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
Here are some weird rock formations in a park near Colorado Springs. Apparently Colorado finds its name from the Spanish word for red.
Some alpine flowers at 12,000 feet in Rocky Mountain National Park....
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