Vacation in the Rockies

leebase

Ok folks. Had a panic attack tonight. Haven't had one in years -- thought I was over them. They were brought on when I lost my job and was out of work for almost a year. Well...this week was the most stressful at work since that time....but then I was off to vacation. And I woke up an hour ago full of terror that I needed to "get off this mountain". Thank God I have a good wife who calmed me down and reminded me that I was having an anxiety attack. I thought I was suffering from altitude sickness...though I could breathe just fine. But I was tingly all over and could not shake the fear.
This explains why, at 3am, I'm posting up some vacation picts instead of sleeaping. Sleep I need after "iron man" driving straight through 18 hours to get here, and then playing in the pool with my kids.

We needed to stop for gas and food -- and it was one of those "yeah, the signs says there's gass, but when you get off the highway, you find out you need to drive a couple miles into 'town'". Well, at least there was this picturesque windmill there.

OMG -- are the rockies beautiful. I've never seen anything like them. Took this on the drive up to Estes Park -- where we're staying at a Yogi Bear camp ground.

This is the de-luxe accomodations we're staying in.
This is the pool....the photos doesn't to justice to the mountains you can see from the pool.

I'll post more later....unless, I'm really dying of altitude sickness and not just having a panic attack (smile)
Check out the gallery -- lots of shots out the car window as we drove up the mountain.


Gallery

Lee

Ric Grupe

That anxiety thing is serious. Find the root of it and do something about it. Good luck and godspeed.

I lived in Colorado when I was a teenager.....your shots bring back fond memories.

Thanks.

Dick on Aruba

leebase wrote:

Ok folks. Had a panic attack tonight. Haven't had one in years -- thought I was over them....

Sorry to hear that Lee. Like Ric said: Get to the source of it and deal from it there and make sure you're not on your own in this. Good luck!

leebase wrote:

...Thank God I have a good wife who calmed me down and reminded me that I was having an anxiety attack...

It's a good thing to stand still by the things that are important. I hope that you're creative in finding ways to show her your appriciation.

Some nice vacation snaps you have there but I don't know it this is the correct forum to show them. Nevertheless, have a good time and don't forget to show us the flora and fauna you encountered.

Thanks for sharing.

Dick.

Harryb

Good shots. I'm gonna move this to the field and startte forum.