Colorado! Next stop!!! Royal Gorge.
We arrived back from the top of the Peak and headed on towards the Royal Gorge area.
Royal Gorge had a fire go through back in June. We didn’t know this till we arrived there. It burnt all but five out of forty-some buildings at the park. It burnt a few boards on the bridge, but the bridge is still there and they are working on repairs and working towards reopening. We could drive up to a place along the gorge and see the bridge.
It always looks so barren and open when a fire has gone through the mountains. Yet, there’s always new life awakening within. God’s earth keeps growing!
Once again, I let the adventurers venture farther than I did.
Since we couldn’t go to the Royal Gorge Park, we opted to take a train ride through the gorge. I thoroughly enjoyed it. We were looking up instead of down. I was sorry there was a fire at Royal Gorge, but I wasn’t all that sad not to walk out on the bridge. We visited Royal Gorge in 2002 when Renae was just a toddler. Let’s just say there’s a lot of heights and drop-offs at Royal Gorge and I highly recommend the train ride. π If we ever go again, maybe I’ll take the train ride while my people do all the heights stuff.
Lots and lots of rafts and rafters coming through the gorge!
We enjoyed riding in the train and walking through the cars and riding on the open car! Beautiful views of water and rock! {And Colorado was a great place to rock our Denver Broncos orange! #ManningFans}
More pretty flowers at the station! Colorado’s climate is pretty sensational! It was raining when we got off the train. It was neat to see the clouds moving in above the mountains. We can watch storms build above our plains in a very awesome way and so it was interesting to watch the clouds in a different setting.
Off to our next stop……….
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Some pretty awsome scenery!! And Renae’s shirt looks so good on her. Fun to get to see her wear it. And that #18 always looks good. π Oh, and so no one feels leftout, Matthew’s shirt is pretty cool, too. LOL! I’m sure the photographer look very stunning, too.
heehee! Thanks for the chuckle! The photographer is quite ok with not being in the pictures! π Renae did take a few photos of Matthew and I. They’re on the other camera and I haven’t even seen them yet!