Slow Travel to Las Vegas – Mountain Passes, Mountain Towns and Chimney Rock NM

Slow Travel to Las Vegas – Mountain Passes, Mountain Towns and Chimney Rock NM

We kind of left you hanging on our return trip from Colorado to Las Vegas last September. The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta happened and here it is November and I’m just catching up now. So, way back in September, if you can remember that long ago… here’s the rest of the story.

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Slow Travel to Las Vegas – Florissant Fossil Beds NM

Slow Travel to Las Vegas – Florissant Fossil Beds NM

On our way to Colorado, I'd noticed several national monuments that we'd never stopped at before or even heard of before... hmmm... when did the NPS sneak those in? We decided we'd check out a couple and the first was Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument located in... you guessed it... Florissant, CO. Fossils aren't usually that interesting to us, but we'd never visited this monument before and it was on the way, so what the heck. It turned out to be more interesting than we anticipated.

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