To the Black Gunnison NP

We headed down to the first of the big tick off National Parks, the Black Gunnison one is less known though still majorly worth a visit, it is like a canyon with dark craggy pinnacles jutting up, we did what we do best a few good bush walks ;)

Hanging Garden

We visited a unique garden today halfway up a mountain, it is unique because it's made up of residue that wedged it's self between two rock faces, it then has a lake in the middle, so they recon one day it might all go flying down the mountain, the highlight was seeing a lady walk out a fallen trunk of a tree in the middle of the lake and then do a full yoga style pose standing totally upside down, pretty cool

Through Buena Vista, Aspen, Independence Pass in the middle of the night...

So we thought we would stay at Buena Vista, though haddnt made a reservation with accomodation. So when we got there it was a bit of a culture shock from the $40-55 a night cheap motels we had been finding, the cheapest one I think we could find was about $100USD and so it was about 7pm getting dark, so what do we decide to do drive through one of the highest parts of the Rocky Mountains known as independence pass, then through one of the most expensive parts of Coloraldo, Aspen to get to Glenwood springs which we found a motel almost in our backpackers budget. Our car still has an overheating problem, and a no heater problem etc. so we set off, soon it's freezing outside and inside the car as we climb the 4,000 metres vertically to get over the mountains, when we get near the top we are soo cold we start experimenting with the heater and soo good, we get it going!! Anyways we drive through Aspen ( which we would have liked to see during the day) and are starving by about 11 pm and then in the idle of nowhere in the mountains we see a Wholefoods! Now anyone who has been to the states knows 2 to 3 amazing supermarket chains they have there, Trader Joes, Amazing and Cheap, Wegmams, Amazing and not so cheap, and Wholefoods, Amazing and Pricy. But Wholefoods has amazing soups right and so we pull in just before they close and have a soup dinner. We finally make it to Glenwood springs and find our simple room to be nice and clean, and we sleep like Babies :)

Up pikes peak

Got to go up 4,200 metres in a car in 1 hour with Bec it was breathtaking, started to get a headache like strait away!! Why we did It because we could! :)