dual personalities

We made it to southeast Colorado and home again, exhausted now but having had a merry old time. We participated in the Santa Fe Trail Bicentennial Symposium, saw everything we set out to see, ate a lot of tasty Mexican food and enjoyed ourselves along the way. Daughter #1 demonstrated the navigational and driving prowess she has acquired while living in mid-MO. Today I’m just going to post some pics while I process it all.

I must say I love this country–the wide open spaces and the big sky! The stars at night were insane! The weather was beautiful. We did not see any tarantulas–try as we might. Dusk was the prime time to do so and we were always on our way to one of the nightly events of the symposium.

We stopped in Denver on our way out of town and were shocked at how big it has gotten and how much traffic there was between Colorado Springs and Denver (there was a Broncos game which might account for some of that). We went to the Colorado History Museum, which has, of course, gotten quite woke since I was last there in 2013. Thankfully they still have Kit Carson’s hunting coat on display, which you will recall was donated to the state by JS Hough.

They also have John Wesley Prower’s branding iron on view in the Centennial State in 100 Objects display.

By the way, here I am with the great-great-great-grandson of Kit Carson who I ran into in Boggsville.

Small world.

We covered quite a bit of territory in Otero, Bent and Prowers counties and you’ll hear more about that in upcoming posts. When we returned our rented SUV at the airport it was insect encrusted and dirt covered–signs of a well spent four days.