2/18/16 Alamosa, Colorado

Yesterday was such a long day!  We got up at 3:30 am to shower and get to the airport.  Our plane left at 6 and we stopped in Charlotte, NC for a half hour layover (Hi, Jonathan) before boarding the next plane to Denver.  We arrived at 11:30, but by the time we collected our luggage (slow) and got to the car rental agency (long lines), it was 1 PM.  We got on the correct road to take us south and quickly got out of the city.  We stopped for a quick lunch in Castle Rock.  This was one of the landmarks that the covered wagons used when traveling out west.  You can see it for miles before you actually get there.  It is a huge rock formation on top of bluff that actually looks like a castle from the distance.  We continued south going through Colorado Springs, home of the U. S. Air Force Academy, and then through Pueblo.  We finally got to head west at a small town called Walsenburg and then over a mountain pass and through a valley to Alamosa.  We didn't stop to explore the town last night as it was almost 5:30 and we wanted to find Louise's out of the way house before dark.  Louise had just gotten home when we arrived.  She had a lovely home (I will take pictures later) and we got settled in a bit before heading back to downtown for dinner.  We ate at the Brew Pub (#2 on the list of things to do in Alamosa) and enjoyed delicious hamburgers and chicken burgers.  We got back and basically fell into bed - so tired!  BTW, it was 70 when we arrived in Denver and 56 here - not too bad considering we had -10 at Mystic on Sunday.  I will get back to the blog later today.  We are going in to the Habitat ReStore this morning to help unload a delivery truck. I also will try to put on the sunset photo I took from Louise's back porch.