Nothing Personal, BUT...

Geez Denver!

Could you mark your roads?

We had a wonderful day in a little

place called Estes Park.

Looks like I’ll have to add pix later.

I’m on the airport WiFi and it doesn’t want 

to load them for me.

Anyhow, it was up in the mountains.

Fresh, lovely air.

Lots of fun shops.

And then a storm rolled in over the mountains.

Estes has a visitors center and a free shuttle

service that runs all over.

Just as it started to sprinkle, the little

bus showed up and on we hopped.

Decided to head into Boulder for an early dinner 

and ended up at Chili’s for a yummy meal

and more... talking. Hahahahaha

You would think we would run out of stuff

to talk about, but no!

We gabbed until we figured the rush hour 

traffic would be done and then headed

in the direction of Denver.

More or less.

Missed a turn.

Missed another turn.

Got turned around.

Roads vanished.

Construction closed sections

and no signs telling what to do next.

Headed the wrong way down a divided road.

Thank goodness Mario Andretti was driving!

(And there was only one other car on the road)

She whipped that baby around and got us going

in the right direction again.

And we missed another turn.

But we FINALLY made it to our hotel.

Where a young man who had limited language

skills and other issues “helped” get us checked in.

(Just cuz it’s legal in Colorado, doesn’t mean

you should use it ay work!)

But we got a room.

And climbed into bed.

And had a good sleep!

And woke up at 3 for our flights out.

It was POURING!

And Denver’s lousy road signs continued.

And our car had terrible headlights.

And the lane markers were pretty much invisible.

But we found the rental place.

Where we parked in the wrong place and drug our

suitcases through the raging river.

And a super helpful shuttle driver parked our 

car for us cuz he was amazing and we were

Obviously at the end of our ropes.

And then he took us to our gates.

Where we had to split up.

But they are calling me to board.

So....

Next stop, Charlotte.

And then Orlando.

Goodbye Colorado!

Paint some signs.

But we LOVED you!!!