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Trip journal 4
9 years ago
Well I'm home now and you'll have to forgive the lack of updates as the hotel we ended at had no real working WiFi, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't go into quite as much detail.
After Riverton, we headed headed up into Rocky Mountain National Park. Once again the scenery was beautiful and we ended up being over 2 miles above sea level. we managed to see lots of elk, but no mountain sheep. I'll admit I was having a bit of a problem breathing, but I took it easy on Phil's advice. From there we headed into Denver and there our troubles began.
We called multiple hotels and they either had nothing or were insanely expensive. We finally got a spot at another Motel 6 and headed down there ASAP. It turned out to be the first hotel that needed all of our ID's to be copied and had their own armed guard. The room was very small, with no room for the air mattress so Phil and Kanren shared the one bed. Luckily I would hear only 1 scream/yell during the night outside.
We decided to move hotels again and booked at another Motel 6 that had a much better rate and would give us 2 rooms for only a slight increase over the last hotel. We decided to kill time by heading west into the mountains again, trying for over 14000+ feet as our target. When we arrived at the start of the road, we discovered that a bicycle road race up the mountain was going on. We pondered turning back, but decided to press on. It was dicey at times, but up we went. Sadly we missed the turnoff to the peak and and didn't exceed 10'000' and headed back to the hotel. Sadly our hotel problems continued.
Once back at the hotel the ID process started all over again. It took us almost 30 minutes to get the booking worked out and then we finally headed out to our rooms. We killed time, had dinner and hung out for awhile before calling it a night.
The next day we had breakfast at a nearby restaurant and headed out to the zoo. The Cape Buffalos were basically the only thing I wanted to see and Phil and Kanren were basically zoo'd out from being at one just two weeks before. A keeper told us that they'd had a calf born a week or so before and I had a kick watching it just run around. I wandered around for awhile more and eventually decided to call it as the heat started to get to me. We decided to head back to the hotel for a bit and it's here that I got introduced to my new digital crack, Ingress. Now Phil and Kanren had been playing it when they could during the whole trip and now I took over for Phil as he was driving. Once back at the hotel, we decided on our next move and decided to go see "Life of Pets". We thoroughly enjoyed it and headed back to the hotel where Kanren showed us a Mystery Science Theatre episode "Jack Frost". We had a blast watching it and crashed for bed again.
After Riverton, we headed headed up into Rocky Mountain National Park. Once again the scenery was beautiful and we ended up being over 2 miles above sea level. we managed to see lots of elk, but no mountain sheep. I'll admit I was having a bit of a problem breathing, but I took it easy on Phil's advice. From there we headed into Denver and there our troubles began.
We called multiple hotels and they either had nothing or were insanely expensive. We finally got a spot at another Motel 6 and headed down there ASAP. It turned out to be the first hotel that needed all of our ID's to be copied and had their own armed guard. The room was very small, with no room for the air mattress so Phil and Kanren shared the one bed. Luckily I would hear only 1 scream/yell during the night outside.
We decided to move hotels again and booked at another Motel 6 that had a much better rate and would give us 2 rooms for only a slight increase over the last hotel. We decided to kill time by heading west into the mountains again, trying for over 14000+ feet as our target. When we arrived at the start of the road, we discovered that a bicycle road race up the mountain was going on. We pondered turning back, but decided to press on. It was dicey at times, but up we went. Sadly we missed the turnoff to the peak and and didn't exceed 10'000' and headed back to the hotel. Sadly our hotel problems continued.
Once back at the hotel the ID process started all over again. It took us almost 30 minutes to get the booking worked out and then we finally headed out to our rooms. We killed time, had dinner and hung out for awhile before calling it a night.
The next day we had breakfast at a nearby restaurant and headed out to the zoo. The Cape Buffalos were basically the only thing I wanted to see and Phil and Kanren were basically zoo'd out from being at one just two weeks before. A keeper told us that they'd had a calf born a week or so before and I had a kick watching it just run around. I wandered around for awhile more and eventually decided to call it as the heat started to get to me. We decided to head back to the hotel for a bit and it's here that I got introduced to my new digital crack, Ingress. Now Phil and Kanren had been playing it when they could during the whole trip and now I took over for Phil as he was driving. Once back at the hotel, we decided on our next move and decided to go see "Life of Pets". We thoroughly enjoyed it and headed back to the hotel where Kanren showed us a Mystery Science Theatre episode "Jack Frost". We had a blast watching it and crashed for bed again.
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