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| Denver Facts Sculpture |
AMTRAK ADVENTURE 2015 - Dark and Stormy Denver, CO - I arrived to a dark and stormy night in Denver Thursday night(June 4) five hours late 11:45 PM. While I waited for a taxi it was hailing during a thunderstorm. Rain continued through Friday morning and finally there was sunshine about 3 PM. I ventured out to the 16th Street mall with FreeRide buses for dinner and a walk. I am staying in a very nice Homewood Suites. Here are a few photos from Denver:
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| Breakfast Room in my hotel - Homewood Suites |
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| Stormy clouds from my hotel room |
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| NFL Denver Broncos Stadium from my room |
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Finally was able to get out for a walk on the 16th Street Mall.
Those are FreeRide Busses on the mall |
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| Denver Wildlife along 16th Street |
Amtraking from Emeryville detouring through Wyoming to Denver - Began my last leg of this Amtrak adventure leaving Emeryville Wednesday morning. Due to annual track work in Colorado Rockies, we detoured from Salt Lake City to Denver through Wyoming - an 18 hour journey with zero opportunities to get off and take a fresh air break. As we approached Colorado north of Fort Collins, we entered the stormy evening Colorado's Denver area was experiencing. Due to excessive freight traffic we were five hours late arriving so I did not reach my hotel until after midnight. I've got a very comfortable spacious room in the Homewood Suites in downtown Denver so enjoyed sleeping a little late and hanging out in my room during the rainy morning hours. Thunderstorms continue in the forecast but the sun did come out this afternoon and I took a stroll down 16th Street Mall for early dinner and exercise.
Here are some photos from my Amtrak California Zephyr ride from Emeryville to Denver.
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| Amtrak's California Zephyr Arrives Emeryville station to begin her journey to Chicago |
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| Last look at Sierra Nevadas in California |
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| Eastern Utah on the detour route through Wyoming |
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| Railing through Wyoming |
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| Just one of many freight trains we passed, met, or followed |
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| Wyoming Scenery |
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| I think this is Green River, Wyoming area |
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| Sightseer Lounge |
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| More Wyoming Scenery |
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| Meeting more freight trains |
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| Another freight train |
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| Rock Springs, Wyoming |
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| Snow peaked Rockies in the distance |
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| Just a little closer to the Rocky Mountains |
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| Wyoming Scenery |
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| Another freight train meet |
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| Lots of cattle |
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| Ominous Sunset in Cheyenne, Wyoming area |
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| Stormy looking sunset |
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| We entered stormy Colorado and arrived Denver 5 hours late |
Time to go home -- I'm headed home to Nashville on American Airlines tomorrow Saturday departing Denver at 11:10 AM MT connecting in Dallas/Fort Worth to Nashville. Schedule arrival is 4:55 PM. Looking forward to being home and worshiping with my Forest Hills Baptist Church family Sunday.
I took lots of photos these past two weeks and will be sharing them with you on my photo gallery website. I will do a blog post update to let you know the photos are ready for you to view.
You can click on any of the small photos in this blog to open a full size photo. Also, click on the "blog title" at the top to view this blog on the web.
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