Denver Part 4: Visuals

For my final installment of the Denver series of posts, I’ll go into some of the visuals that we encountered on our journeys. Colorado is known for their luxurious mountain landscapes. The Rockies are substantially huge. I grew up in New Hampshire, and there are some large mountains there, so I’m not scared of them as someone who may have never seen a giant mountain in their life may be (joke). But these mountains just go on for days – there seems to be no end to them. As soon as you get past mountains, there are more mountains. If you look in between the mountains – more mountains. It’s really a great view. In the other direction? No mountains – these are the land barriers that early settlers came across, and seeing winter at the top of some of these mountains, you have a new respect for them.

Enough history. Who writes about that, you’re here for Alcohol and BBQ related information – but I’m doing a post about mountains. Yeah Ok.

Well, the fact of the matter is, these mountains keep you company the whole time you’re experiencing Colorado via alcohol and food, you can’t get away from them!

They made for amazing sunsets – I seriously think it’s hard to beat a sunset on mountains, except maybe at a beach, or any sunset if you’re taking hallucinogens is probably cool too – but whatever, these were pretty epic too. To me, and I should preface this with the fact that I wasn’t taking any hallucinogens..  It almost appeared like the sunset was a piece of paper that someone had ripped the bottom of the sheet on – leaving a void. Those were the mountains – maybe you can see it too in some of these images…

This one is my favorite:

The best way to experience the mountains is to go check out the Red Rock Amphitheater, which we did on our way up to Boulder. Pretty impressive.

Had to drive through a rock formation to get to the place! Awesome!

Hard to tell, but these rock formations are hundreds of feet tall – HUNDREDs. Great place for some selfies!

It would be awesome to see a show at this place. Some of the greats play there for sure!

Boulder had some great opportunities for photo taking as well.

Then there was Denver itself. We had a great view of the city from the 3rd story patio at our AirBnB –

Had a great view of where the Broncos play as well! My brother said the place looks like a giant flip-flop..  I agree!

Downtown was neat as well – I didn’t take a ton of pics, but here’s one:

Then of course, a couple pics from the crazy electronic music show we checked out (Pendulum) :

No doubt that Colorado has some great visuals to take in – You can only take so many pictures before you start to get annoying to the company you’re with – Not that my brother would have cared, but there is something to putting the phone down and taking things in for memory.

I would absolutely go back to Denver again – I look forward to visiting! All in all, a great time with my brother – we don’t have time like that anymore, and we talked about all sorts of stuff that we usually don’t have an opportunity to talk about. We made a pact to try and have a trip like this every year. I should probably time it better with work, but it worked out, and am ready for the next one!

 

 

 

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