After enjoying our scrumptious breakfast at The Summit House Inn, we hit the road and traveled to Canon City.
The drive there was full of cloudy blue skies and wide open vistas...
One very scenic McDonalds!
In Canon City we hopped aboard The Royal Gorge Railroad for a train ride through the Royal Gorge.
The tracks followed the curve of the Arkansas River as it wound its way through the canyon.
It passed under the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park, which we sadly didn't have enough time to explore.
Another marvel of engineering along the way was this old wooden water pipeline.
This was how many people in the area received water until the 1970's!!
Earl and I also spotted a little "fixer-upper" nestled along the rapids. Vacation home, anyone?
This kamikaze helicopter buzzed over us, swooping sideways through the canyon.
We saw many rafters, kayakers, and boaters.
On the way back we saw that one of this group somehow got separated from his ride.
We even spotted a flock of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep.
I had pictured them as furrier. To me they looked more closely related to donkeys.
Once on the road west the mountains again loomed before us.
Like on the train, the road followed the Arkansas River.
At one point we were able to pull off and get an up close view of the rapids.
Because of the higher-than-average snowfall over the winter, the rivers were running higher than usual, providing great entertainment to anyone adventurous enough to get in!
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