Another day on the road trip

Hello, everyone.  The last road trip post carried us through Palo Duro Canyon State Park. (By the way this was another of the places where my annual Texas State Parks pass paid off. I'm so glad I started having that a few years ago!) The end of that day fell in Trinidad. We stayed at the La Quinta there, at the beginning of town. This was one of the fancier members of that chain. Our room was very nice and we slept well after our eventful day.

The next day we took a leisurely stage to Denver, with some back roads in the Rockies.

This was one of the very informative sign boards at the rest stop near the stomping ground of the famous Indian warrior chief Cuerno Verde. The nearby valley is named after him. I think that his name, which means Green Horn, must have had another meaning than the Western expression "greenhorn" does. (That expression refers to a beginner, like the saying "wet behind the ears" does.) 

We drove over to Cripple Creek, because years ago it had been a touristic place with many artists and some historic sights. These days it's just a pile of casinos, we might as well have been in Nevada. Then we drove along more back roads and came into Denver from the western side. 

This was a view of interesting rock shapes along the way.