Officially On Vacation

After leaving Oklahoma we journeyed westward towards Colorado, taking less traveled roads and enjoying the scenery immensely.Hwy 50 became our companion introducing us to new terrain.

Before we stopped for the night we visited the Royal Gorge. For the exorbitant price of $25 one can walk or drive across the gorge. We left disheartedly, refusing to pay that. However, as we were leaving I spied other people down below by a fence looking at the gorge. Tracy then remembered that spot was where he and his parents saw the canyon. At that time there wasn't a fence, something I cannot imagine. He said he crawled to the edge and peered down into it~pretty scary!

Leaving the gorge we reveled in God's creation  

as we drove over Monarch Pass. Forrest Gump said that sometimes there weren't enough rocks in the world. I understand what he was saying in its context. There aren't enough rocks for throwing in proportion to one's pain sometimes. But all figurativeness aside, I have to say, in Colorado there are plenty of  rocks. And we love them! Huge boulders and various strata slanting on slopes reminded us of our love affair with them.

On the other side of Monarch Pass we descended into different terrain~drier and flatter. After settling in our motel in Gunnison we went to supper at the Palisades. Their menu is quite interesting as it's like a newspaper. While you're waiting for the food, one can read stories about the area. One particular story focused on a woman, self-named "Captain Jack". She was quite a character, having received a tomahawk blow across her forehead. The paper also shared a poem by a local author, John Nelson, about pleading with God for another day in the mountains. "Oh, Lord, please give me one more day, one more day of getting old. One day to watch the meadows green or see aspens turn to gold." After reading that poem it dawned on me that those longings will be satisfied in heaven, having endless days to savor creation! That gives one hope, doesn't it?