Denver, CO

May 10 - 27


This was definitely the highlight stop of the whole trip! All the way from the midwest the land is very flat, mostly farmland, until all of a sudden the Rockies spring up out of nowhere. You don't even realize that you've gained about 5,000 ft in elevation along the way.

This was the view from the airport in Erie, which is on the west side of Denver. We worked from here to the west over the non-snow covered mountain ridges and north toward Ft Collins. This was also by far the busiest airspace we worked in the whole trip!

The best road trip was to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was great to be able to see it before the summer rush had started. We hiked a 7 mile loop through the park.

At both ends of the hike we walked through huge herds of elk (and I mean hundreds of them). We were literally so close we could reach out and pet them.

We also drove to the top of Pike's Peak and walked through the rock formations in "Garden of the Gods" park near Colorado Springs.


P.S. If you're ever in Lincoln, NE the Hampton Inn there had, by far, the most comfortable beds of the trip.