Day 20: Saturday, September 23, 2006

We left the KOA in Colorado Springs and called the information center for Pikes Peak to see if we could go up there. The recording stated that the road was only open 6 miles from the entrance but they were hoping to have it open to 10 miles in a few hours, (it is 19 miles to the top). Because of the shorter distance they had reduced the entrance fee to $3.00 per person – down from $10. So we decided not to go as we really wanted to go all the way up not just half way.

We drove up Gold Camp Road this time in the hopes that we would be able to see some of the snow that had fallen the night before. Even the lower mountains were covered with snow when we got up this morning. Unfortunately most of it had already melted at the altitude for Gold Camp Road but we got some pictures ;-).

We decided to stop at the outlet mall at Castle Rock which is on the way to Denver and so spent some time there getting wind blown and finding some good deals ;-).

It was extremely windy and we could hear the wind whistling around Theo (car) as we were driving down the Interstate. Once we reached Kansas…well lets just say that Kansa is …mmmm BORING…. Sorry for all those who might read this who are from Kansas, but after being out west in the Grand Canyon and then Colorado, Kansas is just a little FLAT and seems very boring ;-).

We were able to find a moderate sized town called Hays which is just off the interstate and stopped there the night.
- Tanya