Colorado Springs

Before finally heading back to Austin to relax and continue my job search, I spent a few days in the Colorado Springs area. While there, I visited Garden of the Gods, witnessed a couple afternoon thunderstorms over Pikes Peak, hiked up the Manitou Incline, a trail rising over 2,000 feet in less than a mile, camped at Mueller State Park, and stopped at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, home to many preserved prehistoric remains including a fossilized Redwood stump known as "Big Stump."