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Today we headed for Rocky Mountain National Park. We were excited. It is the first of many national parks that we intend to visit.
I called Motel 6's Customer Relations and they told me that if I wanted to get my money back then I had to fax them receipts of my stay at Super 8. Yeah, right. I'm on the road and have no fax machine. They screwed up the reservations, not me. Besides, it's none of their business where I spent the night after I left their establishment. If you have any money invested in Motel 6, get it out now! What a joke! The Super 8 seemed so nice that we made reservations there for tonight in Estes Park which is the gateway into Rocky Mountain National Park.
My company, Sybase, has a facility in Boulder, Colorado. We stopped by to take a picture of me behind the Sybase sign with the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the background. We disturbed a red fox who went running away from us while looking back at us over his shoulder most of the time.
Rocky Mountain National Park was gorgeous! It takes only about 2-3 hours to drive through all the paved roads in the park. The park claims to have the highest paved road in the world - 12,183 ft. The road is wide but quite scary as severe drops of thousands of feet are at the edge of the road. Sometimes the drops are on both sides of the road.
We both got headaches from the lack of oxygen at 12,000 feet. The air was unbelievably clean with a hint of pine scent. Most of the peaks are already snow-covered. We arrived here just in time. They are closing the high road tomorrow for the rest of the winter.
In the evening we went back into the park to view elk. There were hundreds, possibly thousands, of elk. Most were females and the scattered males had huge racks on their heads. The elk were bugling. You'll have to watch our videos to hear that sound. We also saw chipmunks, blue jays, doves, a weasel, and some big horn sheep in the distance.
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