Colorado, Corvette, Taffy And Toffee (Estes Park)
We have had a pretty good day. We took a vacation day of sorts even though we stayed within 50 miles of the house. I have a sprinkler project that I started the day out with. It went well and that must have been an indication of how the rest of the day would be. Pretty much perfect weather (70*/no wind) which has been hard to come by when we have time off from work.
I just recently got an alignment done on my Corvette. The car is a 1975 4 speed coupe. Its something I’ve had for a while and it gets worked on every so often. Not to long ago (about 2 years) I rebuilt the front suspension and I just got around to getting the alignment done on it a few weeks ago. I talked Cassie into going up to Estes Park. It is a really nice drive to get there. The canyon is a two lane road that twists around and ends up in a quaint little town the locals just call ‘Estes’, but that tourists scramble to every summer (so do we!).
Parked at the top (notice Cassie’s head)
We took a short trek on a trail too. It is nice to be able to just pull over and hike, no worries about private property. Of course there is private property, but we also have a lot of national forest.
Cassie on the trail
Random Pic
We stopped off in Estes and had lunch at a little pizza place and went for a short walk to get some taffy and toffee.
The Bounty
Overall a very nice day. I wanted to be sure and post some of our Colorado adventures up too! We both have lived here our whole lives so we take a lot of this for granted, but its our favorite time of year (not winter).
Cool Roads, Framed Devil’s BackBone Photo and an Olde time Candy Shoppe
Tags: Devil's Backbone, Estes Park Colorado, Toffee and Taffy
May 17th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I still can’t believe that you two have not visited Rocky Mountain National Park!!!! You are missing the best part. Glad you had a good day. How does downtown look with the burned down building area?
May 17th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
The drive up to Estes and back seems about perfect. Any further and it would become a bit of a lengthy undertaking. Maybe sometime this summer we will go further.
I didn’t notice a burned down building??? I bet I looked right at it and didn’t think anything about it.