Go West Young Man

We spent a great evenng in Met a potential new friend, Alli, at the Keg, a little dive bar with GREAT food. They have a mixed berry salad that is world famous and rightly so. Alli told us how awesome Manitou and Colorado in general is to live in. I haven't met one person who lives in Colorado who isn't a big fan of it. I am looking forward to moving here. We even met a hippie kid who was stranded there that day after a girl who was traveling with him tried to attack him an even he said he didn't know what it was but manitou felt like home.

With that in mind we went to check on the house that we bid on and meet with our realtor. She informed us that the lawyers who are in charge of the estate that is in bankruptcy can't go below a certain level and that our offer was below it. Our agent was very knowledgeable but she flip lops first the place wasn't worth it and we should buy a much more expensive one but then now we should spend the extra $25k and buy this one. She is just out for the sale and perhaps not our best interest. It was a real turn-off. Funny thing is we didn't have a car to go look at the property and she only had a scooter that she uses around town so she called out a friend Nate to take us up there. We hit it off with Nate and he warned us against going higher on price and took us through some other places een though he si not an agent. So we made a 2nd friend in manitou. He also taught us that manitou is the God of the Animal gods for several native american cultures. We left Manitou reluctantly and headed to Boulder to check it out.

Boulder is a really cute college town and it was a perfect day to sit and people watch as kids played in the public fountain. It had a good energy but it was certainly no Manitou. After that we took the drive to Flaming Gorge Recreation Area. The drive was pretty uneventful until we were about 1 mile from the destination where there was a lot of construction. One of the construction signs looked like it was in the road and i skidded to avoid it almost killing us in the process. I luckily managed to safely avoid it and get back on the road with only a major shifting of contents and a lot of adrenaline pumping.

Well now the open road calls and Amy and i are headed to Thermopolis probably the World's largest mineral hot spring... good times.