Going up Pikes Peak by train. You can walk up, that is, you're allowed to walk up, but it's over 14,000 feet high. At the top, a normal blood oxygenation percentage is somewhere between 70 and 80 percent. Mine was 76%. At sea level, we put people on oxygen if they have an oxygenation percentage lower than 90%. I was breathing deeper and faster than I normally do, and I got tired pretty easily, but I was able to walk around and take pictures for a while.

One of my travel priorities, in addition to natural wonders, is engineering wonders. The Royal Gorge Bridge, 1000 feet above the river, is one such marvel. As you can see, above, they had to re-cable it or it would have fallen into the gorge. My pictures don't do it justice. It's beautiful.

Top PIcture: The river at the bottom of Royal Gorge
Second Picture: Royal Gorge Bridge as seem from the river bank
Third Picture: Royal Gorge Bridge, from the river bank with telephoto lens
Bottom Picture: View from the Incline Railway that takes you 1000 feet down from the bridge to the river

Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. The highest, biggest sandbox in the country.

Scenes from lobo overlook at the top of a mountain that we "climbed" by car along a 3 mile dirt road, part of which was covered with snow (late October). Amusingly, we got good cell phone reception at the top.

In western Colorado, just about anywhere you go, you see amazing mountain scenery.

We went to The Springs Resort to "take the waters." They have a series of pools fed by a hot mineral spring. By carefully running the water from one pool to the next, they can gradually lower the temperature of the water, and we can select the pool with the temperature we want. The name of the town, Pagosa Springs, takes its name from a native American word meaning "water with a strong smell." It does smell of sulfur, but it's mild enough that we thought of it as medicinal, and otherwise ignored it. We didn't get a miraculous cure of our bronchitis, but we did feel better after soaking for a few hours than we did when we came in. Of course, that could have been due to the antibiotics we're taking...

Note: I didn't bring my camera to The Springs Resort. This is a picture from their website.