springs

At a command center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, radar technicians constantly monitored screens for any signs of enemy invaders.

Go, one at a time, to the Radium Springs Inn.

She crossed windswept fields and leaped over thickets of shrubs and passed hot springs that sent steam floating into the sky.

“There are poisonous plants and venomous animals and acidic hot springs. Nature also creates toxic minerals. When left alone, those minerals are usually harmless, but humans often dig them up, as you are doing here. I am curious, did you know this mining site was toxic?”

“I’m packing my patience,” said Jamie Haley, a marketing consultant based in Palm Springs, Calif. She’s planning to travel Friday to Toronto for a friend’s wedding, with a layover in Phoenix.