Like I said, we woke up at 5:30 and were on the road by
6am. Bye Santa Fe! Pikes Peak, CO here we come! We had at least a 5 hour drive
ahead of us so we were happy to leave early.
I dozed for a few hours in the car until Jeremy found a breakfast place
we could stop at. Russell’s Truck Stop
was our only choice. We then hit the
road for another 3 hours and arrived at our campground called South Meadow in Pike National
Forest.
The weather was being really
weird. It was sunny, then cloudy, then
raining, then sunny in this rotation every 20 minutes or so. The campground was simple but EMPTY, which was awesome. Very quiet and relaxing.
We set up camp and then headed to the Garden
of the Gods.
It was amazing to see on
this dreary day so I can’t even imagine what it looks like when it is nice out. We drove, climbed some rocks and hiked around
for a couple of hours .
It was nice that
the dogs were welcome to come too, which is certainly not the case
everywhere. It was also really bike
friendly and I thought it would be so fun to ride your bike through the
park. Next time!
We had planned on driving up Pikes Peak but I made the mistake of describing the road that we would be driving on to Jeremy and that made it a no go. Ohhhh well.
On our way back we passed Red Rock Canyon
park and figured we would hike around there for a little bit before the weather
turned bad again. I’m glad we did
because you were allowed to have your dog off leash so Chester got to trot
around. He’s so funny – he is Jeremy’s
little shadow. It started drizzling
again so we stopped at Walmart to pick up some food for the week and went back
to make dinner. It REALLY started
raining after we ate and we were exhausted from no sleep anyway so we spent the
evening reading and relaxing with the pups in the tent.
I finished reading two books: The Second Chance Dog by Jon Katz (so good and so sweet - must read if you love dogs)
and The Liars Club by Mary Karr (it's part of a 3 part memoir... gritty but interesting. Heavy but a
good read too!)
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