More Breckenridge & Liberal, KS

On Tuesday night we had dinner with Dan's friends, Ken, Mackey and John. We all had a great dinner at one of Ken's restaurants. Ken and his brother own 3 restaurants in Breckenridge. So next time you are in Breckenridge stop by Giampietro Pizza, Briar Rose Chophouse or Empire Burger. Thanks Ken!

On Wednesday we took the gondola up from town to the base of the ski area. The ski area is open in the summer with a little fun park at the base. One of the chairlifts also runs so you can go up the mountain to hike around, ride a bike back down or just enjoy the view. So that's what we did. That chair takes you to 11,000 feet above sea level.

Here's a photo from there looking down at the town.

And here's the view looking up to the top of Peak 8, which is almost 13,000 feet.

Wednesday night we had dinner at Ken's house and Jane joined us. She had to leave soon after dinner to go dog sit for someone. She does that a lot, there are lots of dogs in Breckenridge. Ken and Dan then watched a movie, True Grit. It's a pretty good movie.

Oh yeah, here's some photos of the Dillon Marina. We stopped there on the way into town. Lake Dillon is a reservoir for Denver. It's about 10 miles long and has a marina at each end. You don't expect to see sailboats up in the Rocky Mountains but they are up there.

Just before we headed out of town, Kerry stopped by to say 'hi'. It was nice for Dan to see his Breck friends.

On Friday morning we were able to fly out of Denver, heading Southeast towards New Orleans. The first stop being Liberal, KS. The flight went well. There were some clouds to the East of our route but no problem. We had a tailwind and were doing 125-130 knots. So it was a fast trip. The afternoon called for thunder storms so we stopped for the day.

The airport in Liberal is an old WWII training base for B-24 pilots. At the end of the airport is the Mid-America Air Museum. So we took a tour. It's the biggest air museum in Kansas. Lots of military and civilian planes.

The highlight for Pete was seeing a Piper J-3 Cub. That's the plane he learned to fly in over 60 years ago!

This morning our route to the Southeast has fog and rain. So we are sitting in the hotel watching the weather and updating the blog. Hopefully we will get a break mid-day, between the morning fog and the afternoon t-storms. We'll see.