Well, the crazier thing is, I found one of my college buddy over there. I had to travel on Sunday, but it wasn't sure that I have to visit office. So, we made a plan to roam around that one day. Colorado is a mountain place, it has many places to visit. I had a itinerary of all the places, I want to visit. I picked him up from his place and we directly headed to the Colorado Springs. It was already afternoon, so we had to finish everything fast. Also, it was hot and me being from Chicago, can't handle that much heat and my friend, well he just didn't wanted to walk much.
Our first point was Garden of the Gods, well we didn't find parking over there after taking 2 rounds of parking lot, so we moved on. We just saw it from outside and headed to next attraction: Red rock canyon open space, which was basically just an open area. Then we moved to Ghost town museum, this was the first place where we could find proper parking and stayed for some time. It was a paid attraction and I didn't find it worth. The good thing about the place was we got to know about the history of Colorado. It was a gold mining area and the gold was found in river water. Colorado is actually famous for gold digging, I was not aware of it.
Moving on to the best attraction of the day-Seven Falls. It's actually, one continuous fall, but water drops 7 times with stops in between. It is also a paid attraction, but its worth it. We reached there in evening, so Sun was also supporting our small hike. There is a shuttle that takes us from parking to the base and then there is a small hike. Also a shuttle is available from base to the falls if you don't want to hike. I was in the car from morning, so I had to walk a bit, so we didn't took the shuttle. We took some cool pictures while hiking up and then reached to the mesmerizing falls. I must say, it is beautiful. We have to take many stairs to reach to the top of the falls. It gives us picture of all the falls from the top. Once we are at the top, there are 2 hikes, shorter and longer one. I took the longer one, but my friend was tired by this time. So he decided to wait for me. As I started going up, I got to know that it is going to take around 40 minutes to return. I was already halfway through and could not go back, so I informed some people who were going down to let my friend know that I am going to be late. I tried to finish the hike asap and came down. Seven Falls was the only attraction that made our day successful. Then we had pizza on our way back and day can be called as successful.
I had to work in office on the following 2 days and then returned back to Chicago. Next day, I was working in office and my boss again reached out to me for traveling the very same day. No worries, I was back in Colorado in night. This time, it was a hectic schedule. I was working even on weekends. I tried to visit the garden again with my client partner, but no parking one more time. Since my friend was on a trip-a long weekend one, so I couldn't catch up with him.
Then I went back to Chicago and after a couple of days, back in Colorado. This was the 3rd visit and hence the name Cooolorado. This time, I didn't tried to visit garden but had nice Indian food everyday with my friend. Overall it was a good trip every time. I was able to view Colorado from different perspective in every trip which is really a great experience. Many thanks to my friend. Normally, I avoid visiting same place twice, but it was an emergency-Hurricane.
Moving on to the best attraction of the day-Seven Falls. It's actually, one continuous fall, but water drops 7 times with stops in between. It is also a paid attraction, but its worth it. We reached there in evening, so Sun was also supporting our small hike. There is a shuttle that takes us from parking to the base and then there is a small hike. Also a shuttle is available from base to the falls if you don't want to hike. I was in the car from morning, so I had to walk a bit, so we didn't took the shuttle. We took some cool pictures while hiking up and then reached to the mesmerizing falls. I must say, it is beautiful. We have to take many stairs to reach to the top of the falls. It gives us picture of all the falls from the top. Once we are at the top, there are 2 hikes, shorter and longer one. I took the longer one, but my friend was tired by this time. So he decided to wait for me. As I started going up, I got to know that it is going to take around 40 minutes to return. I was already halfway through and could not go back, so I informed some people who were going down to let my friend know that I am going to be late. I tried to finish the hike asap and came down. Seven Falls was the only attraction that made our day successful. Then we had pizza on our way back and day can be called as successful.
Then I went back to Chicago and after a couple of days, back in Colorado. This was the 3rd visit and hence the name Cooolorado. This time, I didn't tried to visit garden but had nice Indian food everyday with my friend. Overall it was a good trip every time. I was able to view Colorado from different perspective in every trip which is really a great experience. Many thanks to my friend. Normally, I avoid visiting same place twice, but it was an emergency-Hurricane.
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