The landscape around Colorado Springs looks alien and other-worldly to British eyes. Mountains soar preposterously high into the blue yonder, wearing a shawl of snow most of the year round. The altitude of the gentle, sloping plateau that defines a local ground level is higher than the highest peak in the British Isles. Suburbs exist in name only. Back home they’d qualify as rough countryside, with houses spaced so far apart that you can’t see one from its neighbor, towns that are barely a short run of “historic” shops and buildings, and “Founded in 1906” written on sign boards without
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