Jaeger's Blog

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it - Oscar Wilde

Close

Menu

  • Home
  • News
  • Road Trips
    • USA 2018
    • USA 2017
    • USA 2016
    • USA 2015
    • USA 2014
    • USA 2013
    • USA 2012
    • USA 2011
    • USA 2010
    • USA 2009
    • USA 2003
  • Archives
    • Posts with Gallery
    • Posts Preview
    • Posts by Date
    • Posts by Timeline
    • Posts by Tag
    • Photos by Tag
    • Photos by Date
    • Portfolio by Tag
    • Sitemap
  • About
    • Gear
    • Contact

About

We are Jackie and Marco, a couple having been together for more than 25 years. We are both originally from Switzerland and fell in love with Southern California, when Marco did his MBA in San Diego in [...]

Social

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Search

Copyright © 2003–2019

Jaeger's Blog

To look at a thing is very different from seeing itOscar Wilde

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Home
  • News
  • Road Trips
    • USA 2018
    • USA 2017
    • USA 2016
    • USA 2015
    • USA 2014
    • USA 2013
    • USA 2012
    • USA 2011
    • USA 2010
    • USA 2009
    • USA 2003
  • Archives
    • Posts with Gallery
    • Posts Preview
    • Posts by Date
    • Posts by Timeline
    • Posts by Tag
    • Photos by Tag
    • Photos by Date
    • Portfolio by Tag
    • Sitemap
  • About
    • Gear
    • Contact
Home Road Trips USA 2011 Pikes Peak, CO

Aug 8, 2011

Pikes Peak, CO

Pikes Peak, CO

Odometer: 26,169

The plan for today is to drive up to Pikes Peak. But somehow we and/or our navigation lady miss a turn and we end up at the back of Pikes Peak in Victor. Victor is a small country side village with a lot of old mines. They were all built around 1890 and some of them were in use until around 1940.

We see a gravel road on our map and ask for directions because we cannot see any signs. With some help we eventually find it and start closing our circle around Pikes Peak. We follow wonderful creeks, we see horse properties and cattle grazing up on the mountain meadows and we see a young male deer. The whole Gold Camp Road is probably about 30 miles long, but we enjoy every part of it.

At exactly 5pm we drive into the parking lot of “Edelweiss”, a German restaurant (Marco found a flyer from them at the Hotel last night and we feel we haven’t had any European Cuisine for a while). I order a Jaegerschnitzel with Spaetzle and Marco has Sauerbraten with Knoedel. The atmosphere is very German with all German songs playing in the background, but the food was rather mediocre – very different from the american food we had the last few days, but not necessarily better.

We return to the America’s Best Value Inn where we were last night already. We are sure that our tour was much nicer than if we had got the right road up to the peak with all the other people. We enjoyed the solitude and all the beautiful things we saw.

Gallery

This gallery contains 45 pictures.

  • Show all

Filed under: USA 2011, Colorado

SONY DSLR-A900, 1⁄800 sec, f/9, ISO 200
Previous Post
SONY DSLR-A900, 1⁄400 sec, f/3.5, ISO 200
Back to Top
SONY DSLR-A900, 1⁄800 sec, f/9, ISO 200
Next Post

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Featured Posts

SONY ILCE-7RM3, 1⁄200 sec, f/5.6, ISO 125

Early Spring

Feb 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

SONY ILCE-7RM3, 1⁄20 sec, f/2, ISO 640

ZooLights

Jan 12, 2019 Leave a Comment

Instagram

Recent Comments

  • Francine Müller on Merry Christmas
  • Samantha on Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, Gilbert, AZ
  • Rainer on Mogollon Rim – Woods Canyon Lake, AZ
  • Cacciatore on Mogollon Rim – Woods Canyon Lake, AZ
  • Linda on Great Horned Owls

Tag Cloud

Sunset Lakes Wyoming New Mexico Architectural San Diego Nature Texas Switzerland Las Cruces Arizona Yellowstone National Parks/Monuments Colorado On The Road USA Utah California Animals Page

Newsletter

Follow Us

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2003–2019 · Contact · Privacy Policy · Log in

Design by Marco M. Jaeger