An Almost Southern Way of Life Blog & Art Showcase
Day 7 My daughter and Hubby have problems sometimes with altitude and motion. Our next big thing was the Pikes Peak Cog Railway. I was able to procure engineer’s row seats for three of us. Hubby insisted that my mom, Liz, and I take those seats although I’d purchased them…
Day 5 Monday morning was dedicated to the thing that brought us to Colorado Springs—Focus on the Family! My daughter has wanted to visit the headquarters, which houses a fabulous bookstore and “Whit’s End,” the setting of Adventures in Odyssey, one of her all-time favorite broadcasts. We spent several hours…
Day 3 We decided to start the day exploring the Manitou Cliff Dwellings in nearby Manitou Springs. Visitors can climb all through the well-preserved cliff dwellings and spend hours in the multi-story gift shop. After a tasty lunch at Mediterranean Café in downtown Colorado Springs, we shopped the local spots…
Day 1 We’d found two rooms at the Westin, Denver Airport. After a delicious breakfast at the Fig & Olive, hubby obtained our rental van, and off we went to explore every independent bookstore in Denver for book-loving daughter. We ended up at Union Station’s Tattered Cover. By then, we…
A few weeks ago, our baby girl’s graduation trip (a gift from my mom) started out a little rocky, pun intended. “Arthur,” the first tropical storm of 2026, began threatening our plans to fly to Denver Thursday morning on Wednesday. I was walking out the door to go to Bible…