Tony picked me up from the hotel. I'd never met him before but it didn't feel like that. We drove around Denver for about an hour trying to find the Denver Mint. They'd closed off lots of the downtown roads for some reason so were struggling a bit. In the end we gave up and drove south to Colorado Springs where Tony lives. We picked up his wife Keri and went to the Air Force Academy. The car got searched on the way in, two locals, a Brit and a dog must look like terrorists in Colorado. They had some planes on display, I did Free Willy on one of them and we got lots of photos. We also checked out the football stadium and the futuristic looking chapel. We then grabbed some cheap pizza and went to eat it at Garden Of The Gods, which is a cool rock formation thing. We dropped Keri off and Tony and I went for one drink and some chatting at a downtown bar. Then Tony took me to a motel and very kindly handed over a laptop that he said I could keep for the rest of my trip. I watched some terrible TV and fell asleep.
Day 46 (Nov 7th) "I conquered a mountain and I didn't even have to climb!"
I missed breakfast at the hotel by about an hour because the clocks had gone back and I was confused. I picked up a veggie sandwich and a muffin on the way to Pike's Peak (a 14,000ft mountain near Colorado Springs). It was going to be my first mountain but luckily we could drive all the way to the top. We stopped a lot along the way to take lots of photos and it took us about an hour and and a half to get to the top. Tony and Keri had warned me that I might feel dizzy and sick at the top but I was fine. Tony didn't have any problems either. It was just a really cold wind and my hands were suffering the most. At the top ofthe mountain there was a fox just hanging around, very cool. After conquering the mountain we went back down to Manitude Springs where they have lots of different flavoured springs. Tony and I tried almost all of them and they were all pretty disgusting. I quite liked Manitude Springs as a town, lots of hippies and lots of shops. Tony then drove me back into Denver and back to the hotel where I'd previously stayed. I took a walk down to Chipotle for some safe Mexican food and then went back to chill at hotel and plan the next few legs of my trip. I got a depressing text from Danielle in Phoenix saying she would no longer be available for hanging with me on the Thursday and that was my only real plan for Phoenix... bummer. I also got a text from Liz saying she wouldn't be able to do San Francisco... bummer. So I spent the night trying to figure out what I'd be doing the next few days. I also got a message from Andy reminding me about a Back To The Future event in Los Angeles on the Friday. It was a re-enactment of the Enchantment Under The Sea Dance with some of the cast and crew, tickets were slightly out of my budget at $300 so I jokingly said to her that I'd go if she could get enough donations from all of my friends.... more on that later...
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