United States travel stories

Part 3 - The Colorado Plateau

I stop in Glenwood Springs and have a quick lunch sitting inside the truck. I am back on the road heading toward Grand Junction and the Utah border by half past noon. The landscape is broad, open...

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Part 2 - Glenwood Canyon

Just west of Dotsero the land rises into brownish-red hills, vertically rutted like a series of ridges and valleys turned on their heads. A few more miles and the distant hills change to sheer, rus...

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Part 1 - Over the Rockies

When your parents live over one thousand miles away, you don't get to see them that often, and it is always sad when a visit comes to an end. Perhaps this isn't true for everyone, but it is...

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Supplemental - Littleton, Colorado

What the Hail? San Francisco has its fog. And the front range of eastern Colorado has its afternoon thunderstorms. But in all cases, Mother Nature sometimes likes to throw us a curve. Mother N...

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Day 3 - Cheyenne, WY to Littleton, CO (with highlights from Wyoming)

9:43am - How luxurious! Here it is almost 10:00 already and I'm just here lolling in my room getting a head start on today's writing. I've got most of it behind me now and with only...

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