Manitou Springs

On July 11, we visited Manitou Springs, Colorado for a few hours.  The springs produce carbonated water.  Every year in the summer there is a automobile race to the top of Pikes Peak which starts just west of town.  I suspect it was cancelled this year, another casualty of COVID19.  This is a good sized tourist town with many shops to poke into.  Aggie loaded up on post cards and we purchased some metal yard art for our back yard.  Aggie found a hair salon to cut her hair in Woodland Park.  They would not trim my beard, so I will have to wait.  You can catch a train from this town to the top of Pikes Peak which is over 14000 feet high.  We did that on a previous visit and there is a reason they call it a Rocky Mountain High when you reach the top.  The high altitude makes you feel light headed and I felt a little noxious.  There are shops and a cafe on the top and hikers either hike up or down from there.