Oh, how I miss Colorado! Eric and I have discussed how the single winning difference between Asheville and Colorado is distance to so many other areas of the country that we love that does not require a minimum of an eight hour car trip! That's the one downside of the west. However, I visit Colorado regularly, checking back into my old haunts from when we lived there, and wondering how I didn't appreciate them more at that time. One of the family trips was driving a 10 mile dirt road up through the mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park. Once the traffic jam of photographers was fought (you would think that elk grazing on the grass there is comparable to seeing a real dinosaur, but I won't go overboard on criticism since I've been, ahem, known to randomly stop to stare at wild animals!), we puttered up the rather steep and absolutely stunning dirt road with many pit stops. One such pit stop is in the video above, where Elle enjoys climbing. In fact, I think she climbed anywhere she could get near a rock all week, which was not difficult.
Note: Out West photo album is fully updated and in the Travel Photos section on the left.
