Oct 19, 2014 | Elias' Blog
We loaded the car and hooked up our teardrop camper. Then we set off on the road to Virginia. Luckily, it was only 2 hour drive to our first destination. We arrived mid afternoon at Natural Tunnel State Park. In the parking lot there was a neat old train we climbed...
Sep 26, 2014 | Elias' Blog
When we woke we ate breakfast and began researching trails around Gray’s Peak. When we found the trail that heads through the valley and up the to top of Gray’s Peak, it looked like the trail was not far off of where the original book portrayed images of...
Sep 25, 2014 | Elias' Blog
We woke up early to get on on the trail to the Mount of the Holy Cross. We stopped by the ranger station to get some info on the trail and headed off to the trail-head. Once we got on the road to the trail it was super bumpy and rough. It felt like we were driving...
Sep 23, 2014 | Elias' Blog
We woke up and ate an early breakfast, so we could locate the spot that we had tried to find earlier. We slowly wandered down the hill stopping to compare the book to the view in front of us. Eventually, we came to a spot where the lake water, mountains, and hillside...
Sep 22, 2014 | Elias' Blog, PAPA Blog
Today we traveled to the top of Pike’s Peak, by Cog Train! While we were waiting to board the train, we watched a few hummingbird moths sip at some flowers. They were a dusky brown with a red-pinkish mark in their lower wings. When it was time to board, we hopped on...
Sep 21, 2014 | Elias' Blog
Today we explored the Garden of the Gods, from high up! Garden of the gods is a city park in Colorado Springs full of enormous sandstone rock formations, most of them stories high! Grayson, Dad, and I went rock climbing all over the park. Our guide had all the...
