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Travel Itinerary

Thu Jul 9, 2009, 7:08 AM
I'm going on a trip across the American West tomorrow with my Mom and a bunch of old people for about a week. Most of it will be by bus, but our journey begins on the Amtrak train to Colorado!

Friday
Depart to Illinois, board Amtrak

Saturday
arrive in Denver, CO
Visit U.S. Olympic Training Complex
Tour USAF Academy
(boys in uniform!!!)
Iron Springs Dinner Theatre

Sunday
Garden of the Gods
Lunch with Native American Dancers
(this sounds so contrived and fake)
ride the cog railway to Pike's Peak
Dinner and Western Show at the Flying W Chuckwagon Ranch

Monday
Royal Gorge Railroad Excursion
(sounds like a horror movie or an emo punk band)
Tour Manitou Cliff Dwellings

Tuesday
Depart for Cheyenne, WY
Tour Cheyenne Frontier Days
Bit-Wyo Ranch Horse Barn (Cow Farmer Pig Hay Mouse) Dinner Show

Wednesday
Depart for Council Bluffs, IA
Enjoy scenic drive through the plains

Thursday
Return to Wisconsin

I'll upload odd pictures along the way, if I can.

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~sullensinuous Jul 10, 2009, 1:02:47 PM
a bus trip with old people? are you mad?

nah, old people are quite entertaining. just so long as there are no embittered card-carrying members of the Wisconsin Nearly Dead Society.

Have fun!

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the speculum makes it easier to drop the icecubes in, duh...
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~wanderlustartist Jul 14, 2009, 6:17:44 AM
So far it has been rather painless. Yesterday there was some stress, but mostly because we ended up going to a tourist trap and not an authentic historical spot, like promised. The Manitou Springs cliff dwellings were fake. Rebuilt to mimic the dwellings of the Pueblo tribes. But the museum personnel try to pass them off as the real thing. I have seen more realistic "fake" rocks at zoos.

Pike's Peak was awesome, it is not the tallest mountain in the Rockies, but it's definitely up there. I've never seen so many views that go on and on like that before.

But I should stop hogging the hotel's computer and finish my breakfast.
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~sullensinuous Jul 14, 2009, 4:51:35 PM
Yeah, i've been to one or two things here that tried to do that with aboriginal sites. It's fine so long as they acknowledge that it is a replica (letting twat tourists tramp all over an authentic archaelogical site would be a bit stupid), but trying to pass it off as the real thing is pretty lame...

one day i will visit America and see pretty things... except television, and the catholics who swarmed all over Sydney for world youth day, have made me kind of scared of you lot.

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the speculum makes it easier to drop the icecubes in, duh...
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