Today was a little less stressful, in fact, it was great. We started off with waffles for breakfast, then took a ride to a ghost town of St. Elmo's, at least that's what the guide said. It was a beautiful day, with beautiful scenery, (just another day in Colorado), into a cut in the mountains. We ended up in a ghost town alright, but it was named Hancock. Several hundred of our closest friends knew about it as well.
We took an off road detour around and back to Buena Vista to have a late lunch at the Evergreen Cafe, very good. Thanks again, Tripadvisor. We drove through old Buena Vista, a neat town, then headed over to an area called South Main by the Arkansas river. It is one of those developments where they mix residential, commercial, and green space together. The developer did a super job of it, very nice architecture, mostly prairie style, and it looked to be about 40% built out. We parked and walked around some down by the river. The Arkansas through this area is the leading place to raft and kayak in all of Colorado, and Buena Vista made a section of the river a kayaker's delight. We sat and watched a bunch of people playing in the rapids. We watched this guy doing stuff that we had never seen before. We thought it was cool! What do you think?
After spending an hour or so by the river we headed back to the campground. It's funny, I'm still 12 days away from going back to work and I'm already dreading it. I guess now that we've picked out a definite time to retire, it's hard to think of anything else.
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