8/22/16 - Rifle Gap State Park, CO

Today we took a drive to Glenwood Springs and had a beer at Glenwood Canyon Brewing.  This brewery is on the site of an old hotel where Doc Holliday died.  After having a beer we hiked up a steep trail to Doc Holliday’s gravesite.  He died of TB and was in a coma the last few days of his life.  He died indigent and was buried in the pauper part of the cemetery.  Records were lost to the gravesite's location and no one knows which grave is his.  There is a memorial to him near the flag in the center of the cemetery.  Kid Curry is also buried here. He was part of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's Wild Bunch gang.  He was killed after he was tracked down after a train robbery.  

Then we drove to Aspen and had a beer at Aspen Brewing.  The bartender gave us a really funny bumper sticker that we put on the Casita bumper.  Jim knew about a beautiful lake that was supposed to be one of the most famous photo sites in Colorado.  We drove up to Maroon Bells in the White River National Forest and it was 58 degrees and cloudy there.  Everyone was in coats and jeans.  We had on shorts and t-shirts.  On the way back we stopped in Carbondale and had beers at Roaring Fork Brewing and Carbondale Beer Works.