Tuesday Jeep adventures in the mountains

Tuesday was a day of driving adventures. We started off early in the morning leaving Colorado Springs in bad weather and worried about what we would run into once we reached the mountains in Salida, CO. But it did not take long before the sun was out and the skies were clear. Once we reached Salida we had to stop at MacDonalds and have some breakfast and coffee. It was cold we clear blue skies. We got our 2 jeeps and the owner gave us directions on what would be the best routes for us inexperienced adventures. He lead us straight and we had a great time of traveling about 100 miles in 7 1/2 hours up gravel and large rock roads. We had a great time with lots of laughs along the way. The scenery was incredible as you can see by the pictures I have attached in the link below. The Aspens were not as full as we had hoped but a big wind of 85 mph had brown through the area last week and many of the leaves were no more. We made it back home after stopping in Canyon City (where the Royal Gorge is located) at the village in and had nice dinner and Mr Rice bought us all a very large piece of their famous pies. They were sure good, the only problem I still had another hour to drive home. We were all tired and ready for bed.

Overall we had a great time. See the pictures:

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