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Colorado Monument Offers More Amazing Sights to See

One of the important lessons one must learn about traveling is the need to be flexible. When I booked our hotel in the wrong town, we ended up closer to our next destination so we visited Black Canyon of the Gunnison a day earlier than planned. So with an extra day on our hands, I cast about for something to do. We decided to visit Colorado National Monument. Colorado Monument is a little over an hour north of Montrose where…

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Colorado’s Manitou Springs and Garden of the Gods

One of the things we like to do is check out our country’s national parks. They are usually some of the best places around. As seniors we can enter most for free so it helps with the expenses of travel. It was with that in mind that we planned a trip to Colorado to check out three national parks along the southern corridor. We left on a Saturday in late April. We checked Colorado’s weather the morning we left and…

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