Category: USA Trip
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Soot in my eye, Durango to Silverton steam rail
It is a long time since we have had coal soot in our eyes . When I was a kid when the steam passenger trains ran through Donald and we were going to Melbourne we would put our heads out the window and next thing we would be rubbing our eyes . Well guess what…
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Americas million Dollar Road
Today, we travelled from Bueno Vista to Durango. – Colorado It has been a privilege to renew my (Alison) friendship with Miriam Barnett and meet her husband, Stan – Dr Stan Barnett. I was at school with Miriam, as we have mentioned – at Strathcona Girls Grammar. It is 56 years since we have seen…
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Buena Vista, Colorado, unique part of the World
Picture a quiet little town surrounded by snow capped mountains that you feel you could almost touch. With, at this time of year at the start of the snow melt, a raging white water stream called the Arkansas river that drains down south east through this state through Kansas and eventually into the Mississippi. Plenty…
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Pikes Peak Cog Railway and the Garden of the gods
Wednesday, 17th June What a beautiful day!!! Alisons contribution I had been looking forward so much to the trip in the cog train up to Pike’s Peak. Although, I anticipated this experience with excitement, I was not disappointed or let down. In fact I wished the day would not end! I prayed that the early…
McEwen Farming and Family Stuff 