Our trip to Colorado was excellent.
We encountered a few incidents.
We were headed across the Million Dollar Highway, but had to turn around along the way. The Million Dollar Highway is a winding road along the mountain cliffs. Our driver walked up the road to find a place to turn that big bus around. I told him later that if it looked like the back of the bus was going to hang off the mountain, I was going to get out and watch him turn it around.
He did a great job. We had to turn around because a couple ran off the road and plunged 350 feet into the river below. Both were killed, but a girl sitting in the back survived.
The highway was closed for the rest of the day so rescuers could evacuate the people from the canyon. We missed our train ride from Silverton to Durango. Instead, we visited Ouray and Telluride.
Another day, a forest fire broke out, and everyone's phones went off to alert us. We didn't have to turn around; we were heading away from the fire. At the Colorado airport, we followed our guide. He held up a US flag for everyone to see.
We went up and down escalators to the tram to our gate. Denver International Airport is large and keeps growing.
We were away from August 2 to August 10.
We rode the Georgetown Loop RR. We rode the COG RR up Pikes Peak. We rode the Cumbres and Toltec RR from New Mexico to Colorado. The train stopped, and everyone got off to eat a buffet lunch. We didn't complete the entire route because our connecting train was out of service. We saw the Cliff Dwellings in Mesa Verde. We saw the Colorado Monuments and several museums along the way. We stayed in first-class hotels and ate delicious food.
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