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The Great Sand Dunes is right across the Sangre de Cristo mountains from were my dad was brought up in the Wet Mountain Valley. But there's no road through - you have to go down around the south end of the mountains and come back up the other side. (Westcliffe and Silver Cliff are only one mile...

Day 8 As usual, we had breakfast, and left Durango (or where ever we spent the night)... ...and crossed Wolf Creek Pass... Wolf Creek Pass And I knoe this because I have photos (!) Wolf Creek sign and distance to Durango from here. Hot Spring ...on our way to the Great Sand Dunes...

On their trip to the west coast, they got off the train in Denver and Uncle Harry met them and drove them around. Beth, Harry, and Alice Figge, and Dorothea and Bob Wilson (holding Sobotta) at Uncle Harry's house in Brighton They visited Bob Wilson where he was in medical school - Bob and...

There was snow in Maryland and we had a white Christmas and January Cardinal under our bird feeder Mother wrote: :We got back to home base in wonderful (snowy) Colorado Anatomy meetings in Denver early April 1964 - Sunset over train from observation car looking forward ... to unveil the...

They were in Denver for the Anatomy meetings so of course Dad had to take a photo of the capitol Capitol from bedroom window of hotel - Red gold dome From Capitol Steps looking at the back of a Civil War Union Soldier. It is the work of Captain John D. Howland, a prominent member of the 1st...

The Indiana toll road was the first one with a posted minimum speed. The minimum never went higher than 40 mph across the country and no one ever called us on it. With out speedometer reading high however we speed up whenever we see a cop. That's a switch. Stockyards We tootled into Chicago on...

June of 1938 my parents got a telegram that my dad's father had died on June 5th in Colorado. They were already planning a visit. But they didn't get out there in time for the funeral. Published in the Wet Mountain Tribune June 1938 "Death Calls John Figge - Pioneer Silver Cliff Resident"...

My mother learned to drive in 1923 in North Carolina. She was 14 and she learned on a Model T. The Model T had a different transmission from what you see today. Part of shifting gears was done with your feet. Mother She was taught by her uncles - her mother's younger brothers Willard and...