Breckenridge is about a 2 hour [...]]]> We took a mid-week day off yesterday, and my wife and I headed up to Breckenridge for a little R&R. Living in Colorado Springs has some great advantages, and one of them is the ability to go to some really nice places in a pretty short amount of time.

  Breckenridge is about a 2 hour drive, a little more with traffic or weather issues. This time of year it is very pleasant, it was not yet 70 degrees when arrived. We had a nice lunch next to the river (we have a little patio cafe we like at the south end of Main St), and did a lot of strolling along the Blue River, a little shopping, and too much eating. We rode the free gondola up from town to Peak 8 (where the summer activity stuff is), and also took a short drive up Boreas Pass Road for a nice overlook. Although it did rain as we were finishing our desert, the drive home over Hoosier Pass was uneventful, and the storm had quit by the time we got to South Park.

This slide show is not all from our trip yesterday, but gives you some idea of why we like the mountains in the summer so much!

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We decided to celebrate the end of the school year for Holly with a last minute trip, since [...]]]> Everywhere I’ve lived there has been a special getaway spot for us that we go to recharge our batteries. In California it was Monterey, in Michigan it was the beach, but here, it is Breckenridge (www.gobreck.com).

We decided to celebrate the end of the school year for Holly with a last minute trip, since it is only 2 hours or so from home. Now “mud season” (end of ski season to the beginning of true summer in the mountains) is not the very best time to go. The weather tends to be a little cool and wet, and there are lots of restaurants and shops that close for a month or 2 during this time. Still, we were not sorry we went.
Due to all the snow this year, the Blue River ran very full, and we enjoyed a nice time along the river when we weren’t browsing shops and galleries. We saw lots of antelope on the way (we took Hwy 24 through South Park), and a fox with a bird in it’s mouth ran right in front of our car, across the road practically in the downtown of Breckenridge! We dodged the rain some (it came and went, mixed with some sunshine) and really had a nice time.