IN MY ALMOST 87 YEARS.......AND WHILE I CAN STILL REMEMBER??? MY CLAIM TO FAME IS I HAVE BEEN TO ALL 50 STATES.....6 OF THE 7 CONTINENTS, (not Antartica).....AND AROUND 120 COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD.......MY CHILDREN KNOW THIS.....BUT SOME DAY MY GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN MIGHT BE CURIOUS ABOUT MY TRAVELS......
OF COURSE MY TRAVELS STARTED IN OUR COUNTRY....ADDING A STATE OR TWO AT A TIME.
1. THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT WAS MY OWN HOME STATE OF COLORADO.
I WAS BORN IN MANCOS,COLORADO BUT DID NOT MOVE THERE UNTIL I WAS 7, AND MY FOLKS BOUGHT A RANCH......IT WAS" WEATHERAL RANCH"....WHICH WAS FAMOUS FOR THE FAMILY WHO LIVED THERE BECAUSE THE SONS DISCOVERED THE INDIAN RUINS OF ....."MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK" WHILE HERDING THEIR CATTLE ON THE MESA ABOVE.....MANCOS IS THE EAST ENTRANCE TO MESA VERDE........AND ABOUT 70 OR 80 MILES FROM THE ...."FOUR CORNERS" MONUMENT WHERE COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA AND UTAH ALL TOUCH.....YOU CAN PUT ONE FOOT IN A STATE....BEND OVER AND PUT ONE HAND IN EACH STATE AND BE IN ALL FOUR AT ONCE......
THERE ARE MANY FUN THINGS TO DO IN COLORADO...RIDE THE NARROW GAGE TRAIN FROM DURANGO TO SILVERTON.....THERE IS ESTES PARK.......ASPEN FOR SKIING.....CENTRAL CITY A FAMOUS OLD MINING TOWN OUT OF DENVER AND PIKES PEAK NEAR THERE......I COULD GO ON MANY PAGES ABOUT MY STATE WITH IT'S BEAUTIFUL ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND GOOD FISHING AND HUNTING.
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UTAH IS A CLOSE NEIGHBOR TO COLORADO AND HAS BEEN MY HOME FOR ABOUT 65 YEARS.....I LOVE THE MOUNTAINS AND WINTER SNOW SPORTS AND EVEN GOT TO HELP WITH A "WINTER OLYMPICS".......HELD IN SALT LAKE CITY......A FEW YEARS BACK. IT IS FAMOUS FOR THE LDS TEMPLE AND TEMPLE SQUARE AND OUR GREAT SALT LAKE AND SALT FLATS.......AND KINDA FOR OUR JAZZ?
OUR NEAR BY PARK CITY IS VERY WELL KNOWN FOR WINTER SPORTS AND OLYMPIC TRAINING AND A SUMMER RESORT......AND WE HAVE SO MANY NATIONAL PARKS LIKE.....ZION, BRYCE, HOLE IN THE ROCK ETC. WE HAVE THE GOLDEN SPIKE MONUMENT WHERE THE EAST AND WEST TRAIN LINES MET AND" THIS IS THE PLACE MONUMENT" BY THE GREAT ZOO. THIS IS WHERE I RAISED MY FAMILY AND WILL SPEND MY LAST DAYS.
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