Molly Kathleen Mine/Cripple Creek, CO

You have to be insane to work in a 1000 ft. below ground mine, or have balls of granite.  The machines they use to move rock and drill rock are all diesel powered, so fumes are high.  It is pitch black down there.  There are over 2500 miles of mines in these mountains.  You could use the mines to travel from one mining town to the next, it's all connected.   This mine has 7 layers of mines.  Dangerous!  In the next town over "Victor" there was once a man by the name of Jack Dempsey (aka, one of the most famous boxers ever), he tried to get a job here and couldn't make the cut, he couldn't hang.  The guys that do make the cut, they say, have a 14" neck.  I still say you have to be crazy.  This mine has stopped drilling.  They say the new gold is in digital electronics.

Air Force

Air Force Academy=Tax money at work.  The government shows a little favoritism to the Air Force.  They hooked it up @ the Academy in Colorado Springs, located on the mountains "Rampart Range".  They own the entire mountain side and it is gorgeous!  After I watched "Top Gun" I wanted to be in the Air Force.  In real life you have to have a 4.0 GPA to attend the Academy.  Most of the kids there are LOADED-and I'm not talking drugs!  Even though I've heard rumor that the pilots do fly high on speed.  "I feel the need....the need, FOR SPEED!" Tom Cruse, "Top Gun".   On a more serious note, religion is enforced @ the Air Force.  Protestant has the largest following, next is Catholicism, then Judaism, Other (Mormons meet in the same room as Jews), and Buddhist (my favorite room-all bamboo and pillows to sit on).  So, the Chapel is designed according to religious popularity.  It is also designed to follow the look of aviation.  The Academy is where I learned that there are trails to hike on in Colorado, in other words, you don't have to make your own trails like Louisiana.  It's very organized.  AND, I found out that Rattle Snakes are EVERYWHERE!!!