A healing place/ Abbey offers serenity in a cell phone world

From: The Gazette | Date: August 5, 2000| Author: Jon Libid; The Gazette | Copyright information

VIRGINIA DALE - Silent hills and endless roads are your only companions on the scenic drive through this land in northern Colorado.

A graveled road breaks softly from the highway, winding shyly behind shrub-covered slopes. The dust clears, revealing green fields and curvaceous rocks leading to the copper-domed Abbey of St. Walburga, just five miles from the Wyoming border.

There is nothing but wilderness for at least 20 miles in every direction. For those trying to escape met...

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