Bandi's Cheyenne Mountain Country Drive

 

Song:  Nocturne

Group:  Secret Garden (featuring:  Anne Takle - vocals)

As it was another beautiful Spring day...

I felt the calling to go on another country drive with Bandi.

I made a late morning meal of spaghetti in preparation for another country drive with Bandi.

My basic route.

I had chosen this route which took an old mining road which then skirted Cheyenne Mountain...

as it was another relatively short and local drive...

but one I had yet to drive.

I ended up in Colorado Springs...

and I then took the normal route home.

The temperature was a perfect mid 40s F (about 6 C)...

the skies clear and the alpine as fresh as ever.

Just after leaving my driveway on my way down the mountain.

I had driven past 3 different lakes on this route.

There was a light breeze the whole way...

and my hair was blown about wildly...

but that is all part of the fun...

even though I must have looked like Doc. Brown of Back to the Future  :)

I had stopped for a bathroom and water break for Bandi.

I just wish I could have captured the wide open views in one shot.

There were distant mountains in view almost around every corner.

I thought this sign was funny.

It says...No Shooting...

but it was filled with bullet holes  :)

Bandi just loves her country drives.

The top of Cheyenne Mountain with the military complex's antenna arrays up top...

for NORAD.

I had seen...

what I am pretty sure were...

vultures flying overhead.

I was going down the mountain towards Colorado Springs.

I then proceeded back home on highway 24 (my normal route home from Colorado Springs).

I stopped in at my favorite Taco truck in Woodland Park.

This was my view as I ate in the car.

Bandi was sitting like a human passenger when I got back from ordering my meal  :)

I just got one carne asada burrito.

Yeah...

I know...

after unwrapping it to put on the verde...

I had sloppily rewrapped it  :)

Leaving Woodland Park towards Florissant to my Southern route turn off...

and then just a 20 or so minute drive home from there.

I was less than 15 minutes from home here.

I was just down my street here.

Bandi had another great day...

and I had another local country drive under my belt.

I am thinking of leaving early in the morning on my next country drive...

as it will be the longest drive yet.

But...

I am thinking of waiting until I get my car fully serviced as it is due.

I want everything fully checked out before my sisters arrive.

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Bandi and I are just going to relax the rest of the day...

as we are both a little worn out from our drive.