PH,
What an awesome trip!! Sounds like you all had a great time!! Am anixously awaiting the pictures being added to the thread.
Am glad to hear that you made it home safely.
LBS

White water rafting is great! I am glad you had a great time and I can't wait for pictures. I am sure I will just get depressed as I miss Colorado alot. In the last 6 years I have been back at least a dozen times, but it has always been for family stuff and so no extra activities.

The "Extra Activities" is what created my family

I enjoyed this post – thanks for sharing your vacation

Ok folks,

Got some photos loaded up and ready to share....

We stopped at a roadside rest stop and had a picnic.


Then later we crossed into Colorado....the kids were ready to burn off some energy...


We stayed in Pueblo that night and the next day went to Royal Gorge...this is the rail system that takes you down to the river, about 1K feet below. It's on a 45 degree incline.



They also have a watered powered clock...


Our next day in Colorado we went horseback riding near Leadville...went to the top of Mt. Zion. The girl in the hat is not ours.


The next day we went Jeeping.
Had another picnic...on the rock outcropping behind us it drops a couple of thousand feet and you can see for miles in every direction. Very scenic.

We are up near a working gold mine near Lost Canyon.


We took the next day off and just wandered around Breckenridge, were we had rented a condo.

The next day we went rafting down Brown's Canyon. This was the highlight of the trip.


We went home on Saturday...it was nice but the kids had had enough...

Colorado was beautiful and very clean...seems no one litters or everybody picks up a lot.

Wonderful state....

GREAT travelogue, PH. thanks for the report!

Glad you had a good time. We remember our Colorado summers with great fondness.

Thanks for the latest post with pics .... and a great set of pics they are

Outstanding pics! I've ridden that tram up & down Royal Gorge twice - what an amazing place.

Nicely done PH !

Wowzers, you guys packed a ton of fun into that trip. Thanks for taking us along with you!!!

The funny part is my daughter took riding lessons for years...and look who winds up in the knee brace from riding horses.

My son was apprehensive about riding. A few years ago a horse dropped and tried to roll over on top of him. My son kicked loose of the stirrups and bailed but he could have been crushed by his mount.

This one was much gentler.

PH, Thank you so much for the 'blow by blow' on your vacation. What an awesome trip. And it goes to show, you don't always need to go boating to have a great family trip.
I've never seen that part of the country, and it looks stunningly beautiful.
Thanks... and if you have more pics, please post them!

I do have some more...will post them later.

I'd never been to Colorado either. Each vacation we try to take the kids to another part of the country. New England maybe next year.

Colorado is the one place that all of us agree we would do again in an instant.
We could have skipped the horses no problem, would have done the rafting twice. I wish the kids had had more patience for the Jeep tour.