We had a great night visiting, slept, then Marty and Mary treated us to a great breakfast out, and we left for Las Vegas. We drove Hwy 70 west through the rocky mountains, past Vale and Aspin, just beautiful. There were some fall colors, pictured here. We drove through this extremely long tunnel, I guess its famous.


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Friday, September 18, 2009
Rocky Mountain High
Boulder Colorado is Where I Want to Live
We made it to University Bicycles. Very cool shop, huge, all sorts of road, mountain, cross, city, hybred and even fixie bikes. I got a very cool jersey, blue with the bike shop logo on it. Dad was happy. Then, we moved onto Pearl street, just a beautiful strip with lots of
shops, restaurants and people. After the bike shop, we found a small coffee shop (not Starbucks) with about 30 people in it, 28 of them were working on laptops. The
other 2 were Annica and I, we left our laptops in the car. I had a wonderful Latte, then we headed out to walk around.
There were lots of billboards for "The Buffs" which is the nickname for the University of Colorado at Boulder sports teams. We had a nice mexican lunch at Juanita's. Then we decided before going to Marty and Mary's, we would go to a care repair shop to check out the "check engine" light (see below, a few blog posts ago). We found "Charlie's Excellent Toyota Repair", drove there, it was in a warehouse building, way in the back. Very cool place, the retired dad ran the front desk, I explained the problem, he had his son the mechanic, Jake, hook it
up to his meter and he indicated there was a mis fire on 2 cylinders, not a big deal, he pulled the plugs to check, cleaned of a spot of oil, and cleared the check engine light. No charge. I left him a $25 tip, and we were off. Doodle (the car) seemed much happier. After Charlies, we went to the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, a really special place, built as a gift of Boulder's sister city, Tajikistan, with much of the structure, its hand carved and hand painted elements brought over from asia. I bought some tea for Pam. We then bought some fresh baked cookies for Marty and Mary, and headed out to their house.
There were lots of billboards for "The Buffs" which is the nickname for the University of Colorado at Boulder sports teams. We had a nice mexican lunch at Juanita's. Then we decided before going to Marty and Mary's, we would go to a care repair shop to check out the "check engine" light (see below, a few blog posts ago). We found "Charlie's Excellent Toyota Repair", drove there, it was in a warehouse building, way in the back. Very cool place, the retired dad ran the front desk, I explained the problem, he had his son the mechanic, Jake, hook it
Colarado at last
I am realizing it is difficult to write a blog, you have to organize your pictures, your thoughts and think back to what you have been doing. Errr, its difficult when you wait a few days that is. Anyway, I'll try to put together our trip, it might be a bit randomly layed out.
We drove, and drove, and drove, to make the push to get to our long time family friends, Marty and Mary who live just outside of Denver. We couldn't make it, it was too much driving for one day, about 10 hours. Kansas goes no forever, with pretty bland landscape. We wanted to at least make it to the Colorado border. Searching around on my "Tom Tom" navigational thingy, I found the town of Limon, about 90 minutes outside of Denver, and with my (coolest phone ever, Pam) i-pod I located another Comfort Inn and made an on line reservation. We drove, and drove. Good thing, when we got to Limon, the hotel had booked full. Lots of cowboys here, trucks with horse trailers, maybe it was a horse convention.
We had dinner at Oscars, an ok restaurant next to the hotel, with a movie theme, all the menu items were movie names. Yawn. We ate and went to sleep. Oh, the picture, we passed huge fields of sunflowers, I mean really large sunflowers, all grown in perfectly straight rows, to be harvested and delivered to the flower shop near you!!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Little Nothing on the Prairie
We're not in Kansas anymore . . .
After leaving Topeca, we just drove Hwy 70 West, which just goes on forever, long and as straight as far as you can see.
Check Engine Light
We decided to continue driving, the car was not overheating, so we continued. I'm writing this blog a day later, at least 800 more miles, so all seems fine.
This is the entry to the underground interpretive center with all sorts of exhibits about the settlers and explorers going West. There was a young National Park Ranger guy near the entry of the exhibit, playing a guitar and strolling around, to give it that kind of western campfire feel.
Superman's Home
We got an early start out of Nashville, a nice drive across Tennessee and crossed into Illinois, that was a bit of surprise, but stopping at the Illinois welcome center, we see that this is a very long state, dropping all the way down to Tennessee. Nice welcome center, nice Lincoln magazine.





We saw signs for Metropolis, and stopped after seeing the sign announcing the "Giant Superman Statute". We pulled off the freeway, it was a bit of drive. We first passed a huge "Big John" statute in front of a super market. Then . . . Superman. Cool.
Right around the corner was the police deparment. How fitting. That really large w
oman is taking a picture in front of a superman cutout. Now that's super.
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