Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th- Days of rest

Our Hotel in North Colorado Springs

It is nice to get up and knowing that you don't have to go anywhere unless we think we should do. The plan was to take it easy, go for walks which we did and walked around the large shopping complex across the road which did include a very nice ice cream one day and the next a coffee sitting in the sun where it was so warm we had to seek shade.
This part of Colorado Springs is right next to the US Air force Training Academy and throughout the day single engine aircrafyt are taking off and doing bumps and then off again. In the background people are jumping out of aeroplanes and parachuting back to terra-firma. Its fun to watch and so we did for quite some while.

We have been planning the next few days of our trip now that we have had time to think and we are heading a short way south tomorrow to Pueblo via down town Colorado Springs where we understand there is an historic old town which is worth seeing. We have planned also to visit an Aircraft Museum and a river walk by the Arkansas River. We then head eat on route 50 to cowboy land in the shape of Dodge City where we hope to meet up some gun toting sheriff's... 

The Mall across the street

Tonight, the 30th, we went to the cinema to see a film called ARGO which has Ben Afleck and John Goodman and revolves around a crazy plan to get six American Embassy out of Iran during 1980 at the start of the political issues. The film clearly mentions up front how the dastardly Brits and American got together to put the SHAH in place so that we could get all the oil we needed whilst he made tons of cash, which he eventually brought to USA. Needless to say the Iranian locals did not appreciate the wealth of the Royal Family with poverty everywhere outside of the royal circus and hence the uprising with the request to send the Shah back to Iran no doubt to be shot. The US rejected this request and so relationships went down hill.Its an excellent film and well worth seeing.. 

Some times the American and the Brits what caused the issues in Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq and learn from the Swiss how to stay neutral, don't invade another's country or dictate how foreigners should live. Incidentally every minute of the day the TV is full of advertising by each side of the political agenda for the forthcoming US elections and in one of Romney's adverts they show how the US has fallen down the financial calender and at the top of the list is, wait for it, Switzerland. Perhaps he should watch his own adverts and have a better understanding how you can keep the country rich and the peasants happy.
As I think most politicians are useless and a waste of space I have no opinion who should win the White House as it really doesn't matter as nothing will change anyway irrespective of the hundred's of millions of dollars spent on the adverts where this money could be spent more wisely.
Its is very sad to see the effect of 'SANDY' on the East Coast where it has reeked devastation to an unimaginable level. Lets see if they get this sorted quicker than they did New Orleans