October Part One

 October was such a busy month!  I think we were away from home for most of the month.  Like actually.  So it was a fun busy.  Jake and I started off the month heading to Golden, Colorado for a builder meeting.  It was so nice to not have to fly!  We went a day early and stayed a day longer to take advantage of Colorado time.  We also drove the Jeep.  This is both good and bad.  Good because we get to go fun places.  Bad because the drive is much slower and less comfortable.

Our first stop was Steamboat Springs.  Such a fun little town.  Then we headed towards Rocky Mountain National Park to find a place to camp.  It's been a long time since I slept in a tent, but it wasn't horrible.  The area we ended up in had recently had a fire so there were actually no trees.  And thus not much wildlife.  I don't think I've ever been anywhere that quiet.  It was so quiet it felt loud, if that makes sense.  I slept great.  The quiet woke Jake up;)

Then we headed to the national park.  I've always wanted to go and it didn't disappoint.  So beautiful!  The road through the park goes up to almost 13,000 feet in elevation.  Crazy!  It felt like we were driving on top of the world.  So cool.  We drove through a lot of the park, did a hike, ended on a Jeep road, and then headed to Golden.  

Golden was a cute little town.  Not as pretty as our little Midway, I think.  But I was jealous of all the trails they had along the river.  I went on lots of trail runs and hikes while Jake was in his meetings.  It was awesome.

And then the meetings ended.  We headed to Breckenridge and found a fun Jeep trail.  This trail actually hit 13,000 feet elevation.  The mountains in Colorado are definitely more tall and rugged.  We were going to camp again, but found ourselves outside of Beaver Creek and decided to stop there for the night.  We stayed in an amazing hotel right at the resort.  We've gone there for a lot of years to ski, but never been there in the summer/fall.  Still beautiful.

We made it home and all in all had a great trip!  What about Sage you might ask...  She was living her best life here on her own.  Pretty sure she was with friends every night.  There were reports of being in the hot tub at 2:00 in the morning.  Bottom line is Jake and I can leave and Sage won't cry.  

Beautiful Beaver Creek without snow

Super cool trail I ran on in Golden

Where we camped.  Notice the lack of trees.  Made for good views though.

The whole way to Steamboat there were signs for this store.  A lot of signs.  Guess their advertising worked because Jake got some boots.