Where Was FourWallsdo?: Rocky Mountain High
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (78439)
United States
August 24, 2025 10:35am CST
Okay, I think I’m getting the hang of this. Apparently the site’s taking a lunch break at the same time I do. 
But that’s okay, let’s keep traveling for home. By popular demand, here’s another song explaining where I was on my vacation this month.
Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
As I told @LooeyVille , this isn’t a favorite song. I don’t hate it, I just am not nuts about it. It’s my sister-in-law’s ringtone.
And lyrically, it’s spot-on. Yeah, you go to Colorado for the first time and you get a “Rocky Mountain high.” Not just by being at over 11,000 feet above sea level at the Continental Divide, either! Pretty much from Vail to Denver was a traffic jam, but WOW what a place to be stuck in traffic!
And I don’t care how financially rich you are, as Denver sang, you ARE poorer if you “never saw an eagle fly.”
All I want to know is, when can I go back?
Rocky Mountain High
Written by John Denver
Recorded by John Denver
From Rocky Mountain High, 1972
The serenity of a clear blue mountain lake:
But that’s okay, let’s keep traveling for home. By popular demand, here’s another song explaining where I was on my vacation this month.
Rocky Mountain High - John Denver
As I told @LooeyVille , this isn’t a favorite song. I don’t hate it, I just am not nuts about it. It’s my sister-in-law’s ringtone.
And lyrically, it’s spot-on. Yeah, you go to Colorado for the first time and you get a “Rocky Mountain high.” Not just by being at over 11,000 feet above sea level at the Continental Divide, either! Pretty much from Vail to Denver was a traffic jam, but WOW what a place to be stuck in traffic!
And I don’t care how financially rich you are, as Denver sang, you ARE poorer if you “never saw an eagle fly.”
All I want to know is, when can I go back?
Rocky Mountain High
Written by John Denver
Recorded by John Denver
From Rocky Mountain High, 1972
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
25 Aug
I hope you do. I have four states (Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska) left. That beauty out there is completely different from what we have, and pictures do not begin to do it justice.
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@sallypup (65894)
• Centralia, Washington
25 Aug
@FourWalls It depends where you are in WA state. Stevens Pass is tons more scenic than Snoqualmie. The North Cascades highway pass even more so but my little car would blow its gasket tackling it. I am delighted to have moved out of Eastern Wa.
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@LindaOHio (199754)
• United States
25 Aug
Yes I know this one. Yes, the site crapped out at 4 am so I'm here at 4 pm trying to catch up.
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
26 Aug
It can’t get rid of me that easily, either! 
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@sallypup (65894)
• Centralia, Washington
26 Aug
@LindaOhio Got to love your attitude.
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@LindaOHio (199754)
• United States
26 Aug
@sallypup lol Just telling it like it is!
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
25 Aug
I know. It’s sad when seeing an eagle is newsworthy instead of “the norm.” I saw lots of eagles in the state parks in Florida…and counted my blessings.
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@MarieCoyle (48040)
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25 Aug
@FourWalls I see eagles quite often around here. They like the Sangamon River.
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@DaddyEvil (158777)
• United States
24 Aug
I know I've heard this song before but wouldn't be able to sing along with it.
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
24 Aug
I will take “I’ve heard this song” as a major victory with you. 
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
26 Aug
@DaddyEvil — when you say “yes” to the 10th song that you know, I’m going to go have a plaque made to commemorate the achievement.
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
25 Aug
I love things like “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” and “Calypso” (his tribute to Jacques Cousteau).
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@sallypup (65894)
• Centralia, Washington
26 Aug
@FourWalls And the Eagle song that we played at a private ceremony for one of our friends- she thought she knew all about mountain climbing.
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@porwest (106805)
• United States
25 Aug
John Denver. Look. Here's the thing. You will never hear me ever say anything bad about John Denver. Great guy, great songwriter, great singer...he was just the whole package if you ask me. Love him in the Oh, God movies too, and actually, it's been a while since I've watched those. They'd be worth watching again, hands down.
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
25 Aug
With your disdain for country music I thought Denver would be a little too “soft” for your tastes.
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
26 Aug
@porwest — like Charlie Rich, who infamously read the CMA envelope declaring Denver the entertainer of the year one year and proceeded to set the envelope on fire. Not that Charlie Rich was ever the bastion of traditional country music or anything, but…
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@porwest (106805)
• United States
25 Aug
@FourWalls There's country music and then there's John Denver. I do note the difference. lol
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@snowy22315 (195493)
• United States
24 Aug
I do want to go to Rocky Mountain National Park.
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@wolfgirl569 (121858)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Aug
Glad I still have the smelling salts for you Yep
Yep1 person likes this
@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
25 Aug
You are rocking it like you’re ready to spend Saturday and Sunday in the escape room while hubby watches football!
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@wolfgirl569 (121858)
• Marion, Ohio
25 Aug
@FourWalls That has started and will increase soon.
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@RasmaSandra (88629)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Aug
And here it is my man, my song, thanks
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
25 Aug
I figured if Daddy Evil knows it, then everybody knows it!
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@Deepizzaguy (113709)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
25 Aug
Rocky Mountain High is one of my favorite songs performed by the late John Denver.
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
25 Aug
It’s one of his classics, for certain.
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@dgobucks226 (36882)
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24 Aug
Yes, a visit to Colorado has to include Denver's tune. Something about that scenery inspires those artists.
Here's another artist/band who was influenced by "Colorado."
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@FourWalls (78439)
• United States
24 Aug
Hey, he’s pretty good! You’d think he’d been in Buffalo Springfield or something.
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