Friday, November 02, 2012

Thursday 1st November- River walking and air museum


A breakfast courtesy of the Best Western Hotel which included, for the first time, individually prepared omelettes which we pretty good. A short drive down town through some very old houses which we guess might be at least a little expensive and we arrived by the side of the Pueblo River Walk.




The river walk was created from a need to clear water from the town to stop flooding and they have added gardens and statues, also plenty of places to stop and contemplate and also an outdoor stage where no doubt they hold concerts in the summer season. There is a boat ride, as the who walkway is 1.5 miles out and back the boat ride is quite unnecessary really but there you are. We stopped for a cup of coffee in a nice little coffee house and café where both office people and hippies went to taste what is on offer. They also serve a massive choice of tea using leaves which must be a little unique.
We took route 50 out to the airport and found an atmospheric Diner covered with photos of planes and model planes hanging from the ceiling. The airport was not an over busy place and we had missed the only scheduled flight of the day which had left at 0655 this morning. There did not seem to be a return journey though?
We arrived at the museum which was not overcrowded and were lucky to get a personal tour for about two hours with one of the managers who clearly loved his job and had spent many trips to the UK visiting old US Air Force bases. He was very interesting but the only negative was that he was only interested in what he had to say and not listen to comments from his guests, oh well never mind. We then headed back in to town and visited the Best Buy store for a few bits and pieces and then on to Albertsons for our evening meal. We did look at the microwave ready meals but after one second dismissed them in favour of quite good salads and a chunk of carrot cake. A side trip to the Liquor store for a bottle of their cheapest but finest Chardonnay courtesy of ‘Fat Bastard’ wines of France.
An evening of blogging, sorting photos and generally mucking about. Tomorrow we have about a 300 mile drive east on Route 50 to Dodge City and some cowboys, Jennifer is quite excited and I don’t understand why.