A day out in Colorado Springs

So after a nice walk early in the morning it seemed like it would be fun to drive down to the springs. Traffic wasn't too bad and people seem like they were in a pretty good mood. After getting to the springs it was time to get something to drink. There's an intestinal flu that's been keeping me from eating very much and it was nice to drive and enjoy the nice weather. Then it seemed like it would be fun to drive up to Woodland Park. Well the traffic over on Highway 24 leading up to Woodland Park was really backed up all these people are out with her campers enjoying the Colorado summer. what do they think this is some kind of vacation spot. the Rocky Mountains look particularly Rocky today so that probably had them all excited too. And then Pikes Peak was sticking up into the mountains I mean into the clouds. It almost looks surreal the top of it must have had sun shining on it very brightly because the mountain itself looked like it was lit up by sunlight and it was covered up by clouds very strange. Anyway Woodland Park was nice and it was time to come home well taking the back roads look like it would be fairly short and probably less stressful than driving on the freeway. Except for one small screw up I didn't take the right turn and ended up driving about an extra 40 miles I didn't need to drive this is Mountain driving with signs all along the way saying Motorcycle drivers Rider slow down motorcycle slow down immediately slow down motorcycles you're about to kill yourselves don't do it slow down steep grade winding curves danger danger slowed down. of course it's not 40 straight miles of that but you get the idea you're in the mountains it's windy there are pine trees I mean you could wrap yourself around a tree you could do all kinds of crazy stuff flying off cliffs crashing into rivers I mean this is the mountains okay this is not like guardrails all over the place you're up there rocks could fall down and kill you I mean you know and then on top of all that it started raining and as we were trying to get back into Denver it really started to pour it was pouring so heavily it almost looked like we were going to start hydroplaning. Finally people slowed a little bit. anyway there werent any accidents it didn't appear one guy did get a speeding ticket oh well. they had a whole bunch of signs slow down to 30 slow down to 30 and they had a flashing one of those flashing light things.    It like tells you what your speed is and it flashes at you if you're driving too fast this guy must have blown right past that because the cops had him pulled over and were giving him a ticket anyway it rained almost all the way home which is kind of unusual for Denver usually it rains in certain Pockets but not all over the place but this was pretty much covering the whole city kind of interesting overall it was a nice day. and definitely worth going back to Woodland Park again the view of Pikes Peak is spectacular.