From AZ to CO

 Nine days ago we left the rocks and cacti of Arizona to go visit friends in Colorado and then travel on to Iowa. The weather was fine through Gallup, New Mexico where our friends were snowbound a few days later.

          We saw the passenger train that travels from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, New Mexico and back again.

 It was so good to see the green green grass of Colorado and visit with Rex and Saundra.They showed us a carving on the side of a rocky hill where it said that "Morial Conrad Moschel pioneer massacred by Indians August 21, 1834." A monument below, put there by his children, said that he was 30 years old. 

 

I think that this is Pikes Peak.  The photo was taken from the highway  near Castle Rock.

We had a picnic near the Platte river with Rex and Saundra.  This is the South Platte because the North Platte flows from Nebraska to Wyoming. I'm standing on the Gudy Gaskill Bridge. 

 

Terry liked the little mine which is shown in the upper right of this photo. This ARGO mine reminded him of the restored Kennacott mine in Alaska where we  spent a couple of days.