this is the end (my darling friend, the end). i borrowed this sentence from jim, i hope he won't get mad at me. but seriously. this seems to be the last post of this somewhat irregular and somewhat uncomplete diary of my trip to the u.s. of a. i would like to share some more pisc but since my laptop refused to cooperate with me coupla days ago, i've been hoping that the pics are not gonna get lost at least. if you feel like that, check http://my.opera.com/theorange/albums/ some time in the end of october. if something new comes up, my pics were saved.

i got a story to tell you in the very end. well, it's not much of a story, rather a piece of information. i saw a bear two days ago. i was hoping this would happen one of these days in here (since it definitely won't happen where i am from) and it did. i was running on a bike trail along the yampa river here in steamboat springs in the evening and i saw him. he saw me too so we both turned back (me after a while) and walked/ran on in the opposite direction. well, that was my first "close encounter of a bear kind" (sorry for that, steve) ever. and living where i do, it'll stay like that for some time.

and just to finish with, i'll list some of the things i always wanted to make a note about on this blog but never found time. these and many more. you can ask me some more once we meet somewhere...

... huge cars ... no locking of houses ... no recycling ... no smoking ... huge breakfasts ... no walking ... long time from work ... smalk talk ...

this was a spectacular trip, thanx for that. and thank to the gse team of wonderful people.

here they are, the pics. it did not work at one at night but it works now at six in the morning. which means (apart from the fact that i haven't slept too much:) that you can check out three new series of pics at http://my.opera.com/theorange/albums/. enjoy.

pictures online. i just spent some time selecting pictures to put them online to http://my.opera.com/theorange/albums/ and for some reason teh opera server refuses to cooperate. so you will have to wait a little bit to have a look at pics from clack canyon of gunnison, silverton and mesa verde. i'll be back.

sorry to be late. i mean, i had some i-net connection over the last couple of days but no wireless and i am lazy to write my posts on somebody' s home pc. so i just didn't. plus there has not been that much happening. after we left buena vista some days ago, we went to the city of pueblo, that is big but not too inspiring and headed to la junta, lamar and burlington then. all of these are in the plains areas, which means that even though i may add soem pics from the canyon near la junta in some days, it was really not much to see in these last days. but the places were real and some of them looked what i would expect the rural u.s.a. to look before ever coming to colorado. today we made it from burlington (which is almost in kansas) to colorado springs that is the last stop on our trip and a place where my little sister is gonna pick me up and drive the long way to the beautiful steamboat springs that's everybody talking about:) looking forward to that a lot. i am spending the last four days of my organized colorado experience over the city of colo sprgs in a house with the most beautiful view ever. i would share a picture with you, had i not lost the usb cord long time ago. so just be patient and you're gonna get to see it sooner or later:) g'nite from the hill over the city (as opposed to "city upon a hill":) - i do not think anybody reading this can really get this play on words, if you do, let me know!) see ya ...

some days off(-line). i obviously took couple of days off, spending most of them offline. we made it through telluride and durango in the meantime. not that there wouldn't be enough to write about. telluride is said to be the most beautiful ski resort (beating both aspen and vail), durango offered the beautiful trip to mesa verde, the national park full of remnants of the life of the native pueblo people. and then yesterday to pagosa springs with my first visit to hot springs ever. it felt okey after that and i enjoeyd both the hot springs and the cold river of san juan. and here we are today in the town of buena vista and i am enjoying the place a lot. seems to me that the word "amazing" has made it to my top ten of english vocabulary (including articles and prepositions) for a reason in the last some weeks. teh countryside looks different again and we met about 20 pieces of animals during our five-minute drive from the party tonite only. mostly deer and rabbit. looking forward to tommorrow.

and here a little bit of mesa verde ...

wild wild west, here we go! so this was www (not meaning world wide web this time) in real. silverton is a little bit of a tourist attraction but the feel of the dusta roads and guys with huge hats seemed real. and the steam engine was real for sure. wow, i enjoyed this.

some pics ... as promised. i finally got online for more than couple of minutes today. so here i go with the long promised pictures from the black canyon of gunnison.
i hope to get some more pics into my picture gallery asap.