Colorado Springs is awesome. I'll leave tomorrow. Manitou Springs (right besides Colo Sprgs) has eight natural springs that have different quantities of minerals and all taste different, each being used to treat a different set of ailments/disease over the past 200 years. They work actually, being rich in anything from lithium to iron to calcium. A cool woman gave me some solid local advise and bought me a drink/sandwich for driving her off the top of Pikes Peak. My car handled that sucker like a champ. Some people were told they couldn't drive further down the mountain for 40 minutes to let their brakes cool off.. the CarV just gets shifted into 4 low-low and goes slowly. I drive a beast.
Then today I locked my keys in my car. Triple A'd them back into my possession for free. Sorry everybody else on the policy, the next lock-in's $50. I also went on the Incline - really just a trainwreck of railroad ties and ridiculous grades up the side of a mountain that people train on/succumb to. Turns out i'm reasonably fit and I only had to take 4 breaks; The consensual suffering on that trail was heavy. Then I spoke with some dude who was on his 8th ascent/descent that day. I'm glad I did it, the trail is closing August 17th or so, indefinitely, for repair. It seriously looks like there was a horrible train derailment and explosion then an immediate ceremony to make it a hiking trail.
Tomorrow I hit a goldmine (literally) and then I'll drive up to Denver. The goldmine goes 1000 feet under the surface and you get to see gold veins in their natural state.
Uploading a few videos because I found an awesome Starbucks with Google Fiber. I will actually catch up to current today. Two from the top of Pike's Peak, including one of my songs as it stands, and one from the Garden of the Gods. Pax.
The View from Pike's Peak
Atlas
Garden of the Gods (1 of 2 - 2 exists but I won't link it, it is only to show the namesake rocks)
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