My first visit to Colorado was as a teenager on a 4-H exchange program, I spent a week one summer on a 2,000 acre farm east of Colorado Springs. I spent a couple of hours farming in a massive four wheel drive tractor, in a 200 acre wheat field. Despite not having a driver's license, I drove a truck back the ranch house, my first time driving on a public road.
I have been back to Colorado several times since for various conferences and meetings. One trip we rented a car and drove into the mountains to have lunch at the Breckenridge Ski Resort. The car was tiny and under-powered, I think a long horn sheep passed me on the way up one of the mountain passes. One my latest trip to Colorado I flew in early and rented a car for a road trip to Wyoming and Idaho, checking the last two states off of my list of all 50.
The eastern half of Colorado is flat hard plains. The western half of the state is the Rocky Mountains with 12,000 foot peaks. I need to go back, I want to ride the Durango to Silverton railway near the southern border of the state.
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