Boulder, Episode 2

Okay, you've all been dying for a picture, I know. Spruce up this dreary prose, o bard of the travels.

This is a view of Longs Peak, one of Colorado's famous "Fourteeners," the mountains in the state that top 14,000 feet in elevation. The snow up there normally lasts until mid-July, and the first snowstorms of the next start to hit the mountains again in September.

The picture was taken from the top of Estes Cone, elevation 11,006 feet. Jon (the elder of the Brothers Gordo) and I joined Jimmy (the guy from my CU program who I've been staying with) in a six-and-a-half mile hike to the top of this rock formation on the eastern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. Later we drove through the park on Trail Ridge Road, the highest continuous paved road in the United States.

So you all know, this has been a productive trip. I have secured both a Gordomobile (yes, for the first time in history, Gordo has a car all of his own) and a new Casa de Gordo. So I'm set when I get back here.