We started the day by waking and walking to our breakfast in a castle. Next we packed up and then drove to pikes peak, a 14,000 ft mountain, and thats basically the only thing we did that day because the rest was just driving.
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Day 10 – Highways and Hot Springs
Leaving Telluride we decided to go on one more hike – the 2.4 mile, 1100 feet elevation gain trail to Bridal Veil Falls. Turns out, people are really creative when it comes to naming Waterfalls… (we saw two Bridal Veil falls on this trip, one is in our home region and another in Yosemite -ContinueContinue reading “Day 10 – Highways and Hot Springs”
Day 8: Canyons and Telluride
We started the day by visiting Colorado national monument, and vast series of canyons and valleys, out by grand junction. Next we drove to the black canyon of the Gunnison for a very different canyon experience. The black canyon was mostly plants and grey rocks, while the Colorado was mostly tan and light red rocksContinueContinue reading “Day 8: Canyons and Telluride”
Steamboat – Dinosaur
DINOSAURS!!!! We started this day by packing up to go to Grand Junction but on the way we made a major stop at Dinosaur National Monument. We were wowed by the sheer amount of dinosaur bones they had found 400 Full Dinos and 100 our still in the Quarry. The Whole experience was just likeContinueContinue reading “Steamboat – Dinosaur”
Day 6 – Exploring Steamboat
For the Bares family being back in Civilization means finding a minigolf extravaganza ASAP. Lucky for us, Maverick minigolf was included in a mountain pass called Land Up – which also allowed us to take the Gondola up to Thunderhead for spectacular views and go on two rides of the outlaw mountain coaster, which isContinueContinue reading “Day 6 – Exploring Steamboat”
Day 4: The Stanley Hotel
We started off today by heading back to Rocky Mountain National park. We took three small hikes; the bear lake nature trail (mostly flat and easy), the Sprague lake hike (flat and easy), and Alberta falls (mostly downhill, moderately easy. After that we went to a small spot outside of the park, where they hadContinueContinue reading “Day 4: The Stanley Hotel”
Hiking and Camping
Today was just about the worst day, starting off with the terrible cold “Sleep” that we were not prepared to have. Since we weren’t able to sleep we all huddled up on one bed and snuggled for warmth. Then after the cold terrible sleep, we had to hike up what we thought as theContinueContinue reading “Hiking and Camping”
Getting into the Rockies (old and new favorites)
Leaving Denver wasn’t easy – we really enjoyed our unusual hotel and its late check out – but fun and adventures awaited us down the road. We started with a classic: Minigolf (obviously no Bares road trip is complete without). We had socially distanced and properly disinfected fun at Adventure golf. Our next stop wasContinueContinue reading “Getting into the Rockies (old and new favorites)”
Day 1—Omaha to Denver
If there’s a more boring drive in the United States, I’d like to see it. The 8 hours were a haze of cornfields dotted with trees that shrank as we moved from Lincoln to Grand Island to Kearney to North Platte. Impossibly, Northeast Colorado along i76 is even more boring than Nebraska’s i80. This partContinueContinue reading “Day 1—Omaha to Denver”
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