Day 14 - Last full day

We awoke to the joyful sound of Charlie, the dog harassing a sheep. If you've ever seen a dog harassing a sheep, it was nothing like that! Charlie is the new member of the Kyte household, a cute little puppy who has way too much energy first thing in the morning and the sheep was more man-made fibre than wool.

We set out on our travels in the Impreza STI with Pete at the wheel. 


Achievement: 120mph.

We went to a gold mine and was lowered 1000foot in what they called an elevator, but frankly it more closely resembled a sardine can! We were packed so tightly that if you didn't breath in unison with the person next to you, you could forget it. Once down there, the tour mainly consisted of demonstrations of the noisiest mining equipment you could find, short of dynamite itself (although sneakily they also had a recording of that). After paying us off with some gold ore we returned to the surface via the same physically disabling route and continued our travels.


We ate at a local town called Cripple Creek which may or may not have anything to do with the aforementioned elevator.


We then took some interesting roads, starting with Shelf Road which was a dirt track around a mountain edge. Luckily we were in the right car, which was essentially a Group N Rally car. Following several wall of death manoeuvres around the lips of the canyon we moved on to Phantom Canyon or Special Stage 2 as it became known.


Achievement: 3000 miles.


This stage was equally scenic and generally good fun to drive, some more oncoming traffic kept Pete awake, but his appetite wasn't quenched so we hit Gold Camp Road which was 22 miles of very bumpy, very narrow, suspension pounding, back breaking,  nerve wrangling dirt track.

Once back home we were roped into planting trees before heading to Red Robin for hopefully our last burgers of the holiday (please, no more!). All burgers scoring an average 7/10.