My manager, after returning from a two week cruise in Europe, charged me to use all my paid-time off (PTO) since the company I work for stopped allowing year over year accruals. So I've decided to take an extended weekend out to Denver. It's been an enjoyable weekend.
Today I went with my sister to Colorado Springs to to the Manitou Incline, a one-mile hike that goes pretty steep
When my sister and arrived at the base of the Manitou incline, it did look a bit challenging.
But I went up the incline, a very long staircase:
Although I go to boxing classes 5 times a week, my sister is still in better shape than me. Whizzing up the incline like a robot. I just went slowly and steadily up the stairs and about twenty five minutes later I saw this behind me:
Alas, I saw this in front of me 😟
But I did make it to the top. Here's the view about 2,000 higher from where I started.
I guess cross it off the bucket list:
While my sister beat me up the incline, I beat her back down the incline through a 3 mile trail shown above. I call that an athletic feat 🙌🙌
After we got down the hill and had lunch, my sister returned to Denver while I went to the Garden of the Gods:
The rocks are interesting to look at:
Walking through there you may see a rock climber or two:
As I left Colorado Springs, I decided to drop by the Focus on the Family headquarters:
A very large campus with a large Welcome Center and bookstore. Unfortunately, they were closed for Memorial Day. I guess I'll have to come back some other time.
But I'll just say it was a good day.
