02.09.2014 Day 11: Estes Park to Steamboat Springs It was tough getting up this day. We were both feeling quite exhausted and decided just to take it easy in our travels. Breakfast at an extremely nice place called "Eggs and I". Something I realised is that this high rocky part of the country is simply awash with gemstones and crystals. There were shops everywhere. Huge barrels holding large lumps of crystals, I couldn't even lift. So we stopped at a few sh...

01.09.2014 Day 11: Boulder and Onto Estes Park Let's just put yesterday behind us shall we? Since then everything has been brilliant. Woke up slowly, and gradually creaked our way off to a local Waffle House for breakfast. Sitting next to us was a nice American guy and his Korean wife, and we all got talking. We told him we planned to drive up through the Rockies to Seattle and he gave us all kinds of excellent advice on the best route. We started with a ge...

31.08.2014 Day 10 Fly to Denver Colorado The horror of this day is almost too fresh in my mind to write it down. Event One: It began at 5am when we needed to wake up to sort out our 'repack' and get on the road back to St Louis to catch the plane to Denver. After doing our packing the night before, this meant we had only caught 4 hours sleep. Event Two: We have been travelling around the States with the great help of a GPS actually lent to us by our Westp...