Water AND Sand, Daddy My wife Sarah and our two boys are in Colorado this week with her folks and her best friend, Paula. Sarah sent me this picture of Sean and Paula from her phone. They are at the Great Sand Dunes National Monument in Southern Colorado.

There is so much beauty in the world, and I'm glad I have discovered Colorado. Damn glad.

Here's some info about the dunes:

Make sure you don't break your coxyxx.

Great Sand Dunes National Monument – There is plenty of sandy desert in Arizona and California, but nothing quite like the Great Sand Dunes of Colorado. Seeming totally out of place at the edge of the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, these dunes of pure golden sand cover an area about 7 by 5 miles and reach heights of 700 feet above the floor of the flat San Luis Valley, making them the tallest in the US. The valley, which is over 7,500 feet in elevation at this point, extends for over 100 miles south into New Mexico and is bordered by the San Juan Mountains to the west and the lower Sangre de Cristo range to the east - these hills mark the edge of the Rockies and continue southwards towards Santa Fe. The Valley is also notable for having some of the longest stretches of straight road in the US, including a 35 mile section of CO 285 between Monte Vista and Saguache.
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