6/17/08 - Colorado Springs, CO








We drove through Colorado Springs to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. This place has a bunch of millions of years old fossilized Sequoia trees. These trees were preserved because they were covered up by volcanic eruptions. The place also has fossilized leaves and insects in the shale rock. Of course we were forbidden from picking anything up, and there were rangers everywhere on the lookout. We had a picnic lunch there, then we drove to Cripple Creek. This is an old gold mining town which has been taken over by casinos and quaint shops. We had a couple of free drinks at one of the casinos and fed the slot machines a couple of dollars. Then we rode a narrow gage train up to some of the mining areas. We drove back to Mountaindale RV Park via a gorgeous 22 mile primitive dirt road from Cripple Creek to Canon City through Phantom Canyon.

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