Day 4, Salina, KS to Colorado Springs, CO

Day 4, Salina, KS to Colorado Springs, CO

Woke up in our hotel room in which we arrived late the night before, not sure what to expect of our surroundings....and but it being dead center of Kansas, it was exactly what you would expect....green pastures, sprouting wheat fields, cows, windmills, and oil wells. Not extremely interesting, but very aesthetically pleasing.

Ryan read about a place called "Monument Rocks" which is located, again, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. The GPS was telling us to get off the highway, take a small side road for about 8 miles, and as we approached a dirt road....the GPS told us to turn left on it.....hmmmm.....i can't see a person or car for as far as the eye can see, we're in a small wolkswagon overloaded with my life....and this thing is telling us to drive 7 miles on this dirt road to something called "monument rocks"......in the middle of FLATNESS.......

.....not sure about this Ryan.

But we decided to hop on the road anyways and see where it could take us....and sure enough....there it was.....as we came over a slight hill, in the distance, we saw a group of light colored rocks sticking out of the ground....almost like the rocks at Easter Island, but erosion based and made of chalk. COOL

We hung out there for a little while taking pictures, and then just decided to get on the road, we still had another 9 hrs of driving to do to get to our original destination, which was Crested Butte, CO.

We had a very nice drive out of Kansas and into Colorado. A lot of the same scenery until you get closer to Colorado Springs where the mountains start to take over the scenery.

We arrived in Colorado Springs around 6pm with a little time to spare and a meet up with Ryan's Cousin before we had to head to Crested Butte, which was another 4 and a half hours of drive.








We headed over to the Garden of the Gods, in Colorado Springs to meet up with Riley, Ryan's cousin, and see the Garden of the Gods, which was pretty impressive. Sharp Jagged red rocks sticking out of the ground, beautiful trails and a very vivid colorful sunset. After hanging out in this place for a few hours, we came to the conclusion that driving 4 and half hours into the mountains sounded a lot safer and interesting with sunrise light, than in the night time...which I can tell you now, was a very wise choice.












I will post day 5 and day 6 together since we are staying here in Crested Butte 2 full days.