leaving Denver, 9/1

9/1

Time to head out of Denver and on to Austin. As we left Denver we headed toward Garden of the Gods out side of Colorado Springs. We made a slight detour to walk through the park and the rock formations were pretty cool. It was interesting to see the difference between Garden of the Gods and the formations at Arches (not quite comparable really, Arches make Garden look like a small town public park) between the type of rock in the parks and the way that it was formed.

After the park we went to an Ethiopian restaurant for lunch. It was…ok. Nothing great, flavor was really mild and somewhat bland.  The just 400 miles down toward Austin. We made it just south of Amarillo before deciding that we had covered enough and called it a night.