This one's a bit of a gamble, our travelling technique seems to be the 'winging it' approach so we stumble across things, hope it's amazing and it seems to be working pretty well. Not really knowing what we were going to be seeing here, we again were pleasantly surprised with our first viewing of the Colorado red rocks. The monument- actually being in fairly large national park-is located right next to Grand Junction, featuring red sandstone canyons, a long win...

Today has made me really happy with our choice to bomb it through the south to come to Colorado, second day here we head to the Hanging Lake which is located around 7 miles east from Glenwood Springs. The lake is reached by trailhead so our first ramble for a few weeks and we were both feeling pretty ready to stretch our legs. A relatively short trail (around 3 miles I think RT) but up, up and more up seemed to be the way it went. The heat was around 30 degree...

Finaaaalllly we arrive in colourful Colorado! :) Stunning already pretty excited about the next few weeks here. First stop up in the Colorado mountains the Winter Park Resort, a mini version of Canada's Whistler (obviously nowhere near as developed but it looks good) mainly for Pauls biking fix. With a condo that takes you down to the the village through the trees and mountains and we manage to secure ourselves two nights of free parking up at their top car ...