Have you ever seen something so unbelievable that you thought it was a dream? Before I went to Colorado I had never been to anywhere with any mountains, I was scared of heights and was not sure what to expect. When I first heard we might be going to Colorado I said,”When are we leaving?” right away because I was so excited. I had never been on vacation before except when I was a baby, but I was too young to remember that trip. As the day we planned on leaving approached I started to get very excited and a little nervous.
In May of 2014 my family and I left Missouri to go on a trip to Colorado. We left at 3:00 AM, and I hardly slept at all because I was going to sleep through Kansas; Kansas is a boring state to drive through. I’d never been through Kansas before. There has to be a better …show more content…
I can’t imagine what Pikes Peak would look like if we were at Missouri’s elevation. At the gate where you pay, I wasn’t sure what I had gotten myself into because I didn’t like heights very much, and I was going up what had seemed like the tallest mountain ever imaginable. The first fifteen or twenty minutes of going up wasn’t bad; it was like driving up a small hill that seemed to go on forever. After about twenty minutes the forest that was surrounding the road had come and gone, and the surroundings had started to open. Then realizing how high up we already were when there was a cliff off to my left, amazed at how far we could already see, I couldn’t wait to reach the top. There is a building about halfway up that we were told to stop at because the road ahead wasn’t safe, they opened the road back up about ten minutes later, and we were back on our way. The road got very steep and curvy on the second half of the trek. There is one corner in particular that I’ll never forget because on one side was snow and directly off to my other side was a straight drop
In May of 2014 my family and I left Missouri to go on a trip to Colorado. We left at 3:00 AM, and I hardly slept at all because I was going to sleep through Kansas; Kansas is a boring state to drive through. I’d never been through Kansas before. There has to be a better …show more content…
I can’t imagine what Pikes Peak would look like if we were at Missouri’s elevation. At the gate where you pay, I wasn’t sure what I had gotten myself into because I didn’t like heights very much, and I was going up what had seemed like the tallest mountain ever imaginable. The first fifteen or twenty minutes of going up wasn’t bad; it was like driving up a small hill that seemed to go on forever. After about twenty minutes the forest that was surrounding the road had come and gone, and the surroundings had started to open. Then realizing how high up we already were when there was a cliff off to my left, amazed at how far we could already see, I couldn’t wait to reach the top. There is a building about halfway up that we were told to stop at because the road ahead wasn’t safe, they opened the road back up about ten minutes later, and we were back on our way. The road got very steep and curvy on the second half of the trek. There is one corner in particular that I’ll never forget because on one side was snow and directly off to my other side was a straight drop