Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“I’m looking for something to buy” Harry Styles We learned A LOT about trading today. According to our tour guide at Bent’s Old Fort there are three types of goods: goods that make life easier, goods that make you look or feel good, and entertainment. I think his system is BS, but for $3 per […]
Read More Fine LineAt Sand Creek Massacre we learned about Bent and his forts, the old one and the new one. Today we visited them both, beginning with the new one. We pulled into the tiny gravel lot, confident we were the first ones there in days, perhaps weeks. I put the hiking pack on the hood of […]
Read More Day 4: Bent’s Forts and Colorado SpringsToday started like most other roadtrip days, coffee, cinnamon rolls, and a quick car drive but took a turn I think now of us expected. When ellie recommended we take the tour of Ben’s old fort none of us knew there would be a live reenactment of what fort life would have been like back […]
Read More Im still rolling my eyesIt is already day 4 and we have made it Colorado Springs. Once again we did a stop drive stop drive kind of day. The first stop of the day was about ten minutes from our hotel so, we had breakfast at the hotel instead of taking it on the road. After the quick drive […]
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