{"id":116,"date":"2009-02-22T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=116"},"modified":"2009-02-22T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:18:00","slug":"colorado-spring-colorado-the-town-so-nice-they-named-it-a-couple-of-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Spring, Colorado&#8230; the town so nice they named it a couple of times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SasbVsUQcJI\/AAAAAAAAACs\/0IS3aBlwp2s\/s1600-h\/coloradoSprings.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_rfIXlgkzrtE\/SasbVsUQcJI\/AAAAAAAAACs\/0IS3aBlwp2s\/s320\/coloradoSprings.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>So we&#8217;ve pretty well decided that we&#8217;ll spend some time in Colorado Springs on our drive north.  We&#8217;re thinking we&#8217;ll drive from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cave\">Carlsbad Caverns<\/a> to somewhere near Colorado Springs (about 9 hours driving), spend most of a day in Colorado Springs, then try to make a little progress north before we sleep (Denver is 2 1\/2 hours north).<\/p>\n<p>And Colorado Spring has quite a few activities.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/pikes-peak.com\/\">Pikes Peak Attractions Association<\/a> website summarizes a lot of the area sites and activities.  They have a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/pikes-peak.com\/downloadablemap.pdf\">PDF map<\/a> that includes some coupons.  Some of the sites that are high on our list at this point:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cograilway.com\/\">Pikes Peak Cog Railway<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenofgods.com\/\">Garden of the Gods<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goairforcefalcons.com\/\">USAF Academy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cliffdwellingsmuseum.com\/\">Manitou Cliff Dwellings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But there&#8217;s lots more there&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.focusonthefamily.com\/visitus\/A000000493.cfm\">Focus on the Family<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.money.org\/Content\/NavigationMenu\/ExploretheWorldofMoney\/MoneyMuseum\/default.htm\">Numismatist Museum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santas-colo.com\/\">The North Pole<\/a>&#8230;  Do you know anything about the area we&#8217;re missing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;ve pretty well decided that we&#8217;ll spend some time in Colorado Springs on our drive north. We&#8217;re thinking we&#8217;ll drive from Carlsbad Caverns to somewhere near Colorado Springs (about 9 hours driving), spend most of a day in Colorado Springs, then try to make a little progress north before we sleep (Denver is 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}