"Leaving our second home to the first home"

Flight Denver to Frankfurt | Germany | USA | 2010-04-29
After the 30-days trip this year we left Denver at the end of April from the International Airport. In 2009, Denver International Airport was the tenth-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic with 50.167.485 passengers. It was also the fifth-busiest airport in the world by aircraft movements with 606.006 movements. The airport's distinctive white tensile fiberglass roof is aesthetically designed to be reminiscent of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains in winter.

"Red Rocks and other things"

Denver | Colorado | USA | 2010-04-27
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure in Red Rocks Park near Morrison, Colorado (west of Denver), where concerts are given in the open-air amphitheatre. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for up to 9,450 people in between.

"Colorado´s wine country"

Grand Junction | Colorado | USA | 2010-04-25
Grand Junction is located along the Colorado River, where it receives the Gunnison River from the south. The name "Grand" refers to the historical upper Colorado River until renamed in 1921, and the word "Junction" is from the joining of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers. Hence, Grand Junction has been given the nickname "River City".

"The Mile High City"

Denver | Colorado | USA | 2008-07-14

Denver was start and end of our 2008 trip through the southwest of the US. Here are some pics from the Denver Aquarium as well as from the Denver Airport.

"Awesome Views from the Rim Rock Drive"

Colorado NM | Colorado | USA | 2008-07-08 
Colorado National Monument is a part of the National Park Service near the city of Grand Junction, Colorado, in the western part of the state. Spectacular canyons cut deep into sandstone and even granite–gneiss–schist rock formations, in some areas. This is an area of semi-desert land high on the Colorado Plateau, with pinion and juniper forests on the plateau.

"Dunes without ocean"

Great Sand Dunes NP | Colorado | USA | 2008-05-23

Somewhere in Colorado ... suddenly you stand in front of a big sandbox ... the Great Sand Dunes National Park. Thousands of Miles away from the sea you can find here great sand dunes ... end of may with snow on it.

"Red Rocks and Green Meadows"

Garden of the Gods | Colorado | USA | 2008-05-22 
The Garden of the Gods was our first meeting with red rocks. Its situated in the west of Colorado Springs. On the nice loop you can see a lot of really red rocks, green meadows and white mountains.