Denver, CO to Glenwood Springs

Having made plans to spend July 2nd with my Nephew, Tim and Rebecca, but being delayed for 8 hours going back to pick up our Great Granddaughter, Rosie, it would prove to be too late to barge in on them for the night.  We opted to stay in a Motel in Aurora.

The next morning we arose early, packed the car, had breakfast and drove the half hour to Tim and Rebecca's. We had a great visit, but short.

We left Tim's and headed for Casa Bonita, a souped up Mexican Restaurant with okay food but better than okay entertainment. This was where we had lunch the day we adopted our son, Eric, from the adoption agency.

The place was still the same as we remembered from 1975, even the food was the same, leftovers I suppose.  Just kidding!  Casa Bonita never serves left overs.  We sat in a portion of the dining room where the Cliff Diver does his dive into the pool of water.  The pool is surrounded by dining tables in a half circle fashion.  It used to be Casa's policy to comp your lunch if the diver got you wet. There were two other shows on the cliff-side stage.  One was a gunfight with the Sheriff and Black Bart, the bad guy.

Leaving Casa Bonita, we headed out of town, along with two-thirds of Denver on their way to the mountains. We chose poorly.  It took us 2 hours to travel the first 10 miles!

Our choice of highway took us North and West into snow covered mountains, down through the Glenwood Canyon and to the City of Glenwood Springs.  We stayed the night in the Best Western Motel and enjoyed their swimming pool, hot tub and playground. We sat on the porch during morning coffee watching the cable cars go up the mountain.

We left Glenwood Springs the morning of July 4 heading for Park City, Utah to spend the night with our friends, Alan and JoAnne.