Currently, the Pikes Peak Cog Railway is closed until 2021 for renovations. We decided to take the Pikes Peak Cog Railway while the in-laws were here. The advance tickets sold out, so we got to the ticket office at 7 am for the 8 am train. The ride is about one hour each way, and…
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
While my in-laws were in town, we stopped at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument before we went to Cripple Creek. It preserves a grouping of fossilized redwood trees and other (mainly insect) fossils after a volcanic eruption resulted in a the formation of an ancient lake. The park has several hiking trails that allow…
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Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad
Take a journey back in time while you ride the Cripple Creek railroad through the San Juan Mountains of Colorado to the town of Victor.
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Denver Zoo
So we visited the Denver Zoo back over Memorial Day weekend. Clearly, I was highly motivated to upload the photos to my computer. We decided to take a day trip to Denver and to explore the Denver Zoo. It’s a pretty standard zoo and is similar to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs. One…
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Kenai Fjords cruise
After a bit of research, we booked our Kenai fjords cruise through Major Marine Tours (you can see their building on some of the Seward episodes of “Buying Alaska”). They offered a discounted package with round-trip train fare and the five-hour wildlife tour. Most of the tours offer a buffet lunch, and we didn’t pre-buy…
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Alaska Railroad to Seward
We woke up at 4:45 am on vacation. Because we’re crazy. We booked a fjord cruise and had to catch a 7 am Alaska railroad train to Seward for it. At the train station, we actually met three Hokies (who know a friend of mine from Richmond) and picked up at our tickets at the station…