Day 6 & 7 - South Fork, CO to Colorado Springs, CO

Ok, I missed a day. Get over it. Look at it this way, you get two days for the price of one.

So, day six was our last day in South Fork. Gonna miss this place. Especially Frank and his friends. Spent part of the morning trying to find a gremlin in Frank's iPod that kept inserting an incorrect email address. No success. It's still there, just a little less obvious.

Just before noon a large tank truck loaded with fingerling rainbow trout rolled up Frank's driveway. Twenty gallons of the small critters were dumped in the river right in front of his house. Good deal right? That's a lot of rainbows to be caught (and released) down the road. Wrong. The state worker (Steve I think) told us they were putting in 46,000 and 3% were expected to survive. Before you grab your calculator that's 1,380 alive, kicking and ready to be caught.

Later Royce and Elizabeth came for a BBQ and Frank stepped up to the plate with some great steaks. Lots of great wine, scotch, conversation and then the end of the day.

Thanks for the email Marilyn!

Now on to day seven. Getting up early we finished packing, loaded the car and then headed to the Coffee Shop for breakfast. Faced with the possibility of no lunch, I opted for the Huevos Rancheros. Excellent choice.

Sticking to back roads, we headed generally North through Del Norte and Seguache (pronounced sa-watch) to Poncha Springs. A good part of this drive put us just west of the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) mountain range. With nine peaks exceeding 14,000 feet, this was a pretty impressive sight.

Then it was East on US 50, following the Arkansas River (past a few spots I fished in a prior life) to Canon City. The area around Canon City and Florence is heavy with prisons, including the original Colorado Territorial Prison and the US Penitentiary, Florence ADX, better know as Supermax.

A short drive North got us to Colorado Springs. A little early for check-in, we took a drive around Peregrine and found the house we built in 1995 still standing after the recent fires. Based on the burned areas nearby, it looked like the fire got within about 400 yards of the house. Too close.

After dinner I'm back here are the keyboard, once again bringing you up to date. The next two days will be in and around The Springs. 251 miles to The Springs.

Posted from my iPad2

Stairs to nowhere

Near the home we built in 1995