Today we had another early trip planned. Off to see the Donkey Derby days in Cripple Creek.. We were to meet up with GS# 3 and his dad for a view of the derby for kids and and a few other things… We did take an alternate route up and made it Through Guffey.
Interesting old town and the buildings in the main part are still old , many wore out but helps maintain the rustic nature of the old town.
On the way up Hwy 9 this old homestead caught my eye…
Lots of old STUFF in the down town…
Not sure what the tire repair shop does but they had a lot of stuff to work on.
Has to be a story about the waiting coffins on the other side of the road as well?
They have a cabin for short people in town too! oh wait, I need to make the politically correct with “height challenged people”.
Back down the road a bit I found this cabin , maybe one of the smallest I have seen?
GS#3 is happy to be out and riding…
They had a Viet Nam era helicopter there with some old time vets to explain everything as well. This one was flying while I was in school. 67 to 71. But GS#3 got to check out the seat and look it over.
Here he was watching the Donkeys and ready for a petting but they were more interested in some feeding going on to the other side.
As we walked around town we found out that Cripple Creek is the place where root beer floats were invented… so says the poster… sounded good to me.
Saw this dog out and everywhere they went it tried to get under the cover… guess it has a thing about sin shine so it needs the sun glasses?
In our walking around I spotted a p lace the served up green chili so I had the “slopper” a burger smothered with chili. It was ok but not as good as those from Big Burger World or even the Rose Bud Café…
GS#3 and his dad had some huge corn dogs and a plate of circle cut potatoes chips… didn’t get the picture of them but the hot dogs in the corn coating were huge half pounders it looked like.
on the way out caught this guy handling his donkeys… figure he has been out too long?
We finished up our visit to Cripple Creek and then took the long way home (on the highway) down to the Springs to get cheap gas. ON our way down we spotted this sign in the window of a store in Manitou?
So if your in need of potions and such… they got a great sale going on right now… So was our Sunday visits. oh and I went to the store and got some root beer to have with our ice cream tonight… you know Cripple Creek specials… root beer floats.
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