Colorado!

Travel day to Las Vegas,

Today was a big day, we attack the Rockies! Our first stop involved taking in The Garden of the Gods which was about 20 minutes outside of Colorado Springs, it was a vastly impressive place, I was driving today and I got quite a bit of fun out of driving up dirt tracks in our huge Ford Explorer along the side of a mountain to get some great views and photo’s.

 

The views driving into the Rockies got perpetually greater, like a drum roll of natural beauty culminating with a 14,000ft climb up a slow winding road that clung to the cliff face, sometimes narrowing down to a single lane, this was the best drive of my life, we went through valleys carved by glaciers of old and lakes spanning large plains that appear out of nowhere. We went through numerous temperature ranges, mountain ranges and huge baron plains of nothingness. These pictures unfortunately do not do it any justice but hopefully they can give you a taste of a place so beautiful and so unexpected that perhaps one day you will find your way there.

Aspen! Aspen was a big stop for the sole reason that this was the place that Dumb and Dumber’s epic journey culminated. Unfortunately Dumb and Dumber was not actually filmed here! According to the tourist information lady there, people are always coming in asking questions about that film, so she couldn’t tell us any places that were in the film! Which is the only reason we came here! Apart from that Aspen really doesn’t have anything to offer, it’s a boring place with boring people, and it was expensive (still cheap compared to London though).

At Aspen Paolo and I swapped the role of driver, today in total we would have driven almost 10 hours, by the time it was dark we were having major problems dealing with the amount of bugs on our windscreen. By now we were in Utah where there is NOTHING apart from bugs, we would go 200 miles between gas stations, although seeing the moonlight of a crisp clear night sky light up the cliffs of the back end of the Rockies was incredible, I couldn’t get a photo of this as it wouldn’t show up, you will have to go and experience it for yourself.

We stopped 2 hours outside of Las Vegas and settled in for the night ready to hit Vegas in the daylight!

States so far:

Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona,