Grand Junction

So, classes are too much to handle without a break in between those 15 weeks? Well, if you live in Colorado you can take a quick trip up to Grand Junction. Alright, it does take 5 hours to get up there. However, it is quite a lot of fun! As most of you already know, it’s near Palisade which is Colorado wine country.  It’s really funny when you finally see it. After 2 hours of seeing nothing but the sun, dry dirt, and brown all around Palisade jumps out with lush green vineyards. There has to be at least 15 different wineries around to go to and sample all the awesome wines. Why go? It’s free to go to mostly all of the wineries and do a little taste testing. (All but I think, one. They will charge you 5 dollars to taste their wines) It’s a fun time with friends and/or family, and you get to try a whole lot of wine that you may not have tried in your lifetime.

My husband and I went just a month ago and camped at the Colorado National Monument. It’s something like 5 dollars to get into the park for a week, and 10 dollars per night to camp at some really awesome campgrounds. In a way the Monument is like the Bad Lands (national park) mixed in with a miniature Grand Canyon.It is really spectacular.

Monument

See what I mean? Beautiful scenery, huh? Well, this is where we camped but let me show you some pictures of where we tasted the wine! (and Port and Mead!)

Colorado Wine Cellars

Here is a picture inside Colorado Wine Cellars. Yes, wine comes out of the taps, which is different…

Vines

Here are the vineyards right outside one of wineries. Most of them grow the fruit right outside where you taste. The funny thing about this winery, is there is one across the road, and two more down the street.

Well, there are definitely more pictures from this fun little trip we took for 3 days. However, I feel as if you got the picture: You need to go and try it out for yourself. Make sure that you get some fudge and try it out with the wine!! The pair of wine and fudge is amazing! Can you do this when you are working full-time and going to school full-time? Sure you can. That’s what I am doing! It’s just that I don’t take classes at the campus, like those Saturday classes. I take all my schooling online! You won’t see me walking around the campus at night or on the weekends. Oh, that makes me shudder! I have a life to live!

I will talk to you guys later.

Cheers!

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