We spent the morning driving from Golden to Colorado Springs., there wasn’t a lot to see it was basically freeway driving other than some huge snow capped mountains in the distance.   We did a few laps of Colorado Springs to work out where things are and see what was about, it seems about Ballarat size perhaps a little bigger.

Just out of Colorado Springs, the Garden of the Gods is the most spectacular pieces  of landscape we have seen on this trip so far.  There was a circuit where you could drive past all the major formations and stop off at some of the more spectacular.  In the centre of the park was a monstrous gift shop a place to have a buffalo chilli and a laughing lab (as in Labrador) beer, both very tasty.