I went up to the hills, this one wasn’t any little old front range this was the real Rockies. The majority of the track was in a pine forest, it was dusty as there isn’t any real rain during the summer. At one point there was an old rock slide, I say rock as you couldn’t see any soil or dirt or anything like that, not like it would look back home at all. I walked up to a place called royal arch, where there is a natural arch about 30 foot high, that has amazing views over the Colorado plan which is great to see.
I had a bus trip around Boulder, this is a very different town it is officially the best educated town in the US, with the average of those over 25 having 5 years at University (although how many actual courses passed isn’t recorded) Among people from Boulder are JonBenét Ramsey and Jello Biafra which does say something. Someway said to me that this town’s one way system doesn’t allow right turns, just left and far left (although this is by American standards), so it has some nice appealing features. However, it is a little too self-confident for me they fell they have the good life and anyone else needs to come up to their standard.
Today I flew down to Flagstaff Arizona, this meant taking two planes, total flying time of under two hours, but due to times you have to spend in Airports in took around eight hours. The first flight was from Denver to Phoenix over the expanse of the Arizona dessert, which does just seam to go on forever with very little actual to see. I didn’t spend much time outside in Phoenix but oh my god was hot. The next flight was in a little commuter plane up to Flagstaff. It goes up over the grand canyon, I flew over that a few weeks ago in a 747 at almost 40,000 feet but this was different for a stuff it was only about 5000 feet (above the ground as that is already about 7,500 feet above sea level). Strangely it was actually raining and cold when I arrived in Fllagstaff but there you go.
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