Jan & Dennis' Colorado & New Mexico Vacation September 5-15, 1999 All vacation photos by Dennis & Jan, using a Kodak DC260 digital camera. (All rights reserved.)

Sunday, day 1 Drive across Kansas. Visit the Cathedral of the Plains, the Sternberg Natural History Museum, and the Monument Rocks.

Monday, day 2 Drive to Denver, visited the Zoo. On to Boulder and the Foot of the Mountains Motel. Cute!

Tuesday, day 3 Drive to Estes Park & the RMNP (Rocky Mountain National Park)! Wednesday, day 4 Spend most of the day in RMNP. Later, DH goes fly fishing! Thursday, day 5 DH trys his hand at fly fishing the Big Thompson River. Later, we hiked in RMNP.

Sprague Lake, RMNP

Friday, day 6 All-day drive across Colorado; spent night in Vernal, Utah. Listened to great audio tape! Saturday, day 7 Visited Dinosaur National Park, then headed for drive back through Colorado, stopping at Montrose, the Gateway to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Photo at left by McMullen & Milner Photography, from the cover of "Dinosaur, The Dinosaur National Monument Quarry", by Linda West and Dan Chure. Copyright 1994, Dinosaur Nature Association.

Sunday, day 8 Spent morning at Black Canyon. Headed south through Ouray, Silverton, Durango, and farther south, stopping at Farmington, New Mexico. Monday, day 9 South to Albuquerque, NM. Visited Albuquerque Biological Park; later, had dinner with Jan's grade school friend, Marsha, & her family. Tuesday, day 10 Travel day. Wednesday, day 11 Visited "The World's Largest Hand-dug Well" in Greensburg, KS, then on to Kansas City.

Jan and her Albuquerque pal, Marsha

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