https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/Celebrating travel! If you think the world is too big, or the language barriers too high, come along with me, as I bumble my way here and there... The world really is an accessible place-- not as expensive to explore as one might imagine, nor are the language barriers as high, nor the mood of people beyond our borders unwelcoming... ***If you want good prints of any of my photos, email me and I will let you know how to get them. Please respect my copyright on these, they are my retirement account!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/998063https://flic.kr/p/2sAnUNA Another gorgeous evening! Today I drove Charlie up to his LARP in the mountains near Bailey. We took the route from Colorado Springs up through Woodland Park then north on hwy 67, a twisty windy road through rocky cliffs, mountains and forest. The sky was full of clouds...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/997991More from Colorado Springs as the summer makes room for autumn. https://flic.kr/p/2szRxLk Click to the left to share tonight's sky!https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/993680https://flic.kr/ps/rhS1C I've been collecting clouds and skies lately. Clouds lately seem more interesting and strange more frequently than they used to. Something to do with higher humidity high up where the jets fly.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/991891Yesterday Charlie and his friends drove this route on their way home from their LARPing in southern Utah. The San Rafael Swell is a landscape where in ages past there was an upswelling of the earth, pushing up through layers of ancient sedimentary rocks and cracking the upper layers around it...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/991785https://flic.kr/p/2rEUPkb This evening for the first time in a while there were some beautiful con-trails across the western sky. High winds aloft disperse them into interesting textures as the sun descending changes their colors until finally they are shadows of those travelers.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/990881It connects Colorado Springs from the Garden of the Gods up through and around Waldo Canyon, to Woodland Park. https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBPzSu Waldo Canyon was swept by wildfire the year I moved into the Springs. There's an album of the fire photos I took at that time, too. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmWqxpeYhttps://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/988567https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ A visitor in the morning, storm in the afternoon, and this year's deck garden started!https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/988463https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Here's the beginning of this year's garden!https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/986523We bypassed Sedona and the Oak Creek road on the way north, figuring on saving the time for a visit to Meteor Crater just east of Flagstaff. That, however, was a disappointment: the site is commercialized and charges $30 per person to actually view the crater. Half that, I'd have paid. But this...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/travelblogue/985301It was a perfect day for it, bright sunlight casting vivid shadows. I've wanted to make this drive ever since it re-opened a few months ago. It's pretty rough in some areas, and it might have been better in the truck, but my little Dentra managed it! It was a surprise to discover that the road...