Trains and Meadows

Today we had a two hour drive from one place to another, and nothing else planned ahead, so we were winging it. We found the Georgetown Railroad--a narrow gauge railroad and a silver mine. It was on our way so we stopped there and immediately saw the steam engine and were hooked! Unfortunately tickets on the steam train were sold out, as was the silver mine tour, but we managed a ride on the diesel train, which afforded nice photo ops of the steam engine, and some nice views.

Chipmunk! Young Adventurer had my other camera, and when i download the photos off of that, there will be about 50 of this fellow. We're discovering that Young Adventurer is happier with a camera in hand on this trip. Wonder where he gets that?

We also wandered around Georgetown, which apparently has the largest collection of Victorian buildings in the country.
Found an antique shop with an entire bookstore of antique books!
Then we went on down a scenic highway to Buena Vista, Co. We drove for a while along the Arkansas river, which we will raft tomorrow. The area between Interstate 70 and Buena Vista is beautiful! Much of it is a high altitude valley--10000 feet or so. It looked a lot like this:

Green grass, streams and rivers, wildflowers, Venom saw a deer. Also the kind of area to have a red one-room schoolhouse. :-)

We're driving back up the valley in a couple of days on our way out, and are planning to stop for more photos.