Each Christmas - we travel from San Diego, CA to Colorado Springs, CO to visit family. I get up early one morning to take pictures of the sun rising and hitting Pike's Peak (14110 feet above sea level). This is one of the shots that I took this year. I took many - it is hard to determine which is best.

This trip - we decided to not spend the time in a hotel - and drive straight through from Colorado Springs to San Diego. The weather was great - we get fairly good gas mileage on our car - and the kids are old enough to sit for a long time in the car. We made it home in about 19 hours. I was really tired on the drive in from Yuma, AZ to San Diego.

While this is my first post on this blog - I have used other blogs in the past. The most recent one I used did not seem to capture full sized photos. Since the bulk of what I want to capture here is photos with some interesting text - I decided to make a switch to this instead of the other blog.