Today was my birthday and I turned 10 years old.
We spent the previous night in Victor Colorado. We stayed at a creepy old "historic" hotel in this small gold mining town. It was mostly a ghost town, but the pizza and Olympics was good at Dirty Sallie's.
This terrific trolley lives at the visitors center in Victor.
Cripple Creek & Victor has an enormous strip mine that features 27 foot tall monster dump trucks that haul rocks out of the mine and dump them to form huge man-made mountains.
Here I am inside an old dump truck tire.
The next mine we went to was the Kathleen gold mine in Cripple Creek. This was a shaft mine from the late 1800's.
We got to ride an air powered train in the mine. It was really loud and dark!
We came to Cripple Creek to ride the Cripple Creek & Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad. It was a really cool train with tiny crazy steam engines. This train brought miners from the mines to Cripple Creek for fun on the weekends - and all week long.
Last but not least, we rode the Royal Gorge. We rode in a special dome car that used to ride the rails in Alaska. It was really fun. We were pulled by two diesel engines through a canyon with lots of rafters.
For my birthday, I had six sauce cheese cake.
It was a really fun 10th birthday.
1 comment:
Christopher, sounds like you are having great fun. I can 't believe how huge the truck tire is. How heavy do you think it is? Was the narrow gage railway rougher or smoother than a regular one? Love Grandmommy and Granddaddy
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