{"id":589,"date":"2009-08-22T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/589"},"modified":"2009-08-22T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:22:31","slug":"the-sojourn-in-pictures-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/589","title":{"rendered":"The Sojourn in Pictures: Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 4 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the <a href=\"\/storey\/archives\/category\/summer-sojourn-2009\">Sojourn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday:  <a href=\"\/storey\/archives\/587\">New Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colorful (and dizzying) Colorado:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>An intense game of Pac-Man in the massive arcade in Manitou Springs:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Also in Manitou Springs, Coke and Pepsi together again:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I almost came back, but Emily got me 7-5 in air hockey:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs &#8211; this is called the &#8220;kissing camels&#8221; formation:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Pretty impressive work by the rock here:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Union Station in Denver.  I don&#8217;t know the percentage of cities whose train station is called &#8220;Union Station&#8221;, but it&#8217;s got to be high.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Gametime, Coors Field:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO8.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Fred Lewis is coming for the Rockies:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Glaciers in Rocky Mountain National Park:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO10.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A neat lake as we started our ascent into RMNP:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO11.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Emily checks the darkening skies as the horizon retreats:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO12.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And then the rains came:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO13.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>People don&#8217;t like rain:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO14.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Emily&#8217;s hat is waterproof:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO15.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Mine, less so:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO16.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The rain was in the upper elevations, so we retreated to the lower Moraine Park:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO17.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Emily found the river a place of peaceful contemplation:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO18.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As did a coyote:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/SojournCO19.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Next up: Wyoming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 4 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: New Mexico Colorful (and dizzying) Colorado: An intense game of Pac-Man in the massive arcade in Manitou Springs: Also in Manitou Springs, Coke and Pepsi together again: I almost came back, but Emily got me 7-5 in air hockey: Garden of the Gods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,26,31],"tags":[5,67,71],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-just-add-photo","category-summer-sojourn-2009","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-just-add-photo","tag-summer-sojourn-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}