Back in the plains...
Jun. 30th, 2007 21:48![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedge...and back on the grid. Reduced to bullet points just for brevity.
* New experience: 4-wheeling. An hour and a half to go six miles. If you've never been, imagine standing close to the edge of a cliff while one person tries to push you off and another punches you in the kidneys every fifteen seconds. Fun? Not so much. Left me so exhausted I slept half the next day away.
* At the end of the six mile trail was a mill at the top of a fifty foot waterfall, the only significant remains of a 19th century silver mine. I would like to say that I didn't lie to my sister when I told her that the unpleasant ride was worth it, but I did indeed lie to my sister.
* I truly hate I70 between Denver and Glenwood Springs. Aside from being a series of 5 and 6% grades and unpleasant curves, the road conditions are as bad as (or worse than) I70 between Columbia and St. Louis.
* It was a good family visit, but we were very glad to see flatlands again. We've both had enough of mountains for a long while.
* We're in Hays, Kansas, neither of us with the energy to drive straight through to KC, even though our own beds beckon.
I'm sure there will be more, but not tonight.
* New experience: 4-wheeling. An hour and a half to go six miles. If you've never been, imagine standing close to the edge of a cliff while one person tries to push you off and another punches you in the kidneys every fifteen seconds. Fun? Not so much. Left me so exhausted I slept half the next day away.
* At the end of the six mile trail was a mill at the top of a fifty foot waterfall, the only significant remains of a 19th century silver mine. I would like to say that I didn't lie to my sister when I told her that the unpleasant ride was worth it, but I did indeed lie to my sister.
* I truly hate I70 between Denver and Glenwood Springs. Aside from being a series of 5 and 6% grades and unpleasant curves, the road conditions are as bad as (or worse than) I70 between Columbia and St. Louis.
* It was a good family visit, but we were very glad to see flatlands again. We've both had enough of mountains for a long while.
* We're in Hays, Kansas, neither of us with the energy to drive straight through to KC, even though our own beds beckon.
I'm sure there will be more, but not tonight.