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Jul 11 2008
One thing you find yourself thinking about on a road trip is the question, “Why did this town spring up here in the middle of no where. We slept in the town of Cortez the previous evening, and that was all I could think about. Why here? Moab is kind of the [...]
Jul 10 2008
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program . . .
Yesterday we left Ouray, and headed over another amazing road – Highway 550 that runs from Ouray to Durango. Sometimes called the Million Dollar Highway, it is one of those drives that takes longer than it should. It seemed we were stopping [...]
Jul 09 2008
Cool article in Sports Illustrated this last week on Tim Lincecum – the Giants amazing ace. You can check it out here.
Jul 08 2008
We spent the morning exploring the shops of Georgetown, and touring the Hotel de Paris. The hotel was founded in this silver mining town in 1874 by Louis Dupuy. Dupuy was a French man who ended up in Georgetown in the early 1870’s, and set out to work the silver mines in the [...]
Jul 07 2008
Today we began the trip home, and what will be a slower meander across the Western states. From Loveland we headed up Highway 34 into Rocky Mountain National Park. We wanted to start our trek back over the Rockies by driving over the Trail Ridge Road. Opened in 1932, this road crosses [...]