Left Hays just after 8 am and pulled into a campground in Colorado Springs around 2pm. Today’s drive through Kansas was the flat farmland I was expecting except the altitude kept increasing. Hays is around 1988 feet (so a web site tells me) and Colorado Springs is around 6000 feet. With a few hours for sightseeing Ed, Zaph and I headed for the mountains and a place called “Garden of the Gods”. It was a good choice after a day and half in the truck. The garden is an huge area of unusual rock formations that was donated to the town of Colorado Springs with the condition that the garden remain open and free to the public and no permanent structures except necessary ones (i.e. maintenance buildings). There are roads through the garden and many parking spaces so you can walk around and enjoy the amazing rocks and walk we did.

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A museum was on the side of the highway beside the information centre.

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Driving through Colorado Springs.

The rock formations at Garden of the Gods were amazing.
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