Colorado is Just Freakin’ Gorgeous

After some fiddling with the GPS (which claimed the fastest route to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park was about a hundred miles longer than the route Google Maps suggested) we found ourselves driving through absolutely jaw-dropping scenery. It was a 300 mile ride to rival anything we’ve ever seen before, including Going to the Sun Road in Glacier N.P. Snow-capped mountains, gorgeous valleys complete with cattle, evergreens as far as the eye could see in spots, Aspens just beginning to leaf out in others. There just aren’t words. (Nor are there pictures, as our GPS was indicating a post 10 PM arrival at the campground. We were just making time.) The temperature gauge fluctuated wildly, up as high as 79 or 80 and down to the low 50s, as we traversed the mountains.