Letters to a friend...: From Cedaredge to Redstone. Independence Day 2019 trip, part 12.

About this blog:

We love traveling. We always capture tons of pictures from wherever we've been and we like sharing our traveling experiences with our friends. So, this is how this blog began - as short stories with pictures in an attempt to share where we've been and what we've seen. Even not stories , but just notes. Nothing serious and big. Mostly I'm writing these stories on a rush and sometimes even don't have time to re-read them. So, I apologize in advance for possible typos here and there. There can be some factual errors or inaccuracies and they even might be corrected one day. Don't hesitate to contact me if you find something that needs to be fixed and don't expect these notes to be a perfect novels ;) The stories in this blog are not in chronological order, but I will try to remember to put the date of the trip. So... welcome to this blog and, hopefully, you will find something interesting and have the same feeling we had when we were there. Let's go...

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

From Cedaredge to Redstone. Independence Day 2019 trip, part 12.

Of course we didn't want to leave these amazing wildflowers (Another wildflowers trail in Crested Butte. Independence Day 2019 trip, part 11) we admired the day before, but we needed to drive back to Denver. So we started the next morning by discussing which route to take. And we had tons of options...

For example, we could choose a short but boring road... Or a longer but more scenic one. Beautiful or easier... Guess who won ;) Yep, common sense failed again, and we chose the longest way possible ;) But, to be honest, we expected it to be also the most beautiful...

So we left Cedaredge and returned along the road we had taken the day before. The scenery was similar to what we enjoyed and we passed this coal transporter, which again made such a strong impression on us.

That was an absolutely beautiful road... It climbed up and down, meandered between hills, passed small and quiet towns, ran along rivers and lakes... We saw the prairies and mountains, green trees and rough rocks...

We crossed the mountains and stopped to enjoy the roaring river and Hays Creek Falls.

Staying there cooled us off a bit and we breathed in fresh and crystal clear mountain air. It was really hard to get back in the car and keep driving, so beautiful this place was...