We stopped in Breckenridge, looking for McDonald’s coffee and never found any….actually found no chain restaurants. The town looks very different in the fall than it does in the winter with all the snow, the skiers and the shops all open.
From Breckenridge, we headed out southeast through the valley and toward Pikes Peak area. At times, we thought we were back in Montana or Wyoming as the land stretched forever until it hit up against the mountain range. 
As we neared Pikes Peak, it was time for lunch and we ended up in Manitou Springs at a neat little place called Adams Mountain Café. They advertise “ slow food” as everything is cooked from scratch. This probably wasn’t the day to try out “slow food” as everyone was in a hurry to start up Pikes Peak, but the food was good and soon we were off for the peak. Jerry is the only one of our group who had been to the top nearly 30 years ago and he ( along with the rest of us) was stunned that the charge was $40 per car to drive up 19 miles to the top. And on top of that, we could only drive 15 miles as it was SNOWING at the top!! We were all spoiled over the past 3 weeks using our Senior National Park Pass for all the National Parks and saving over $200. We didn’t even make 15 miles as it started snowing a lot, and we turned around to go back down. So, Jerry is still the only one to reach the top of Pikes Peak.
Late afternoon, we headed out across the Colorado Front Range and into the flat plains of eastern Colorado, staying in Limon. Colorado for the night. We dodged the bullet with a bad thunder storm and were in a great position for the trip headed back to Indiana the next day.
We have been gone three weeks and the guys still can’t decipher the “back seat code” the girls use all the time. ( We keep it that way!) Ha.
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