BISHOP CASTLE

During spring break we visited Bishop Castle in the San Isabel National Forest. It's been built entirely by one man, about my age, who bought 2 1/2 acres when he was 15, started making a home from stone, and after being told it looked like a castle continued on and on and on. It's an amazing feat of building and was really interesting to climb through. It's open to the public with no charge. There is a highly volatile interview with Jim Bishop on You Tube which kind of made me glad he wasn't there working while we visited, but hey all artists are a bit mad, it seems that madness spurs them to create be it by writing, painting, composing or building.