Welcome to Colorado
And here we are in Colorado, though this is far northeastern Colorado where things don't look very Colorado-like yet. Really, I find Colorado's eastern, High Plains half almost as appealing as the western mountains in its own way -- almost -- though all the big corn circles up toward Julesburg don't do much for me. But Interstate 76 runs along a high point east of the valley of the South Platte, so even in the corn you get some expansive vistas. It's a pleasant change from all the driving through the Platte River floodplain you've been doing for 400 miles.
This is the 782nd photo I've posted in the Colorado state album, which means I'm only 218 pictures away from that thing where I have to split a state up by county. This is a Colorado-centric trip, but I suspect based on how these things usually go that I'll end up a little shy of the trigger, so while it could happen, it will probably have to wait for the next trip that takes us to Colorado.
That will likely happen next year, because we go to Colorado a lot. I recently did the math and found that of the 104 trip albums I'd created before this trip, 20 have taken us to Colorado for at least one day. In fact, I'm kind of burnt out on Colorado. Well, not really burnt out, say, but maybe a little over-exposed. When Robin first proposed an October trip, I kind of pushed for someplace Eastern, because I was tired of Interstate 80, and we haven't gone East for a while even though I've been trying all year. But we wound up going to Colorado, and it turned out to be a fortuitous thing for a lot of reasons. Colorado always feels homey to me no matter what my mood is going in, and I had a good time, even if things turned weird about an hour or so after I took this for mysterious reasons I won't ever explain!
Welcome to Colorado
And here we are in Colorado, though this is far northeastern Colorado where things don't look very Colorado-like yet. Really, I find Colorado's eastern, High Plains half almost as appealing as the western mountains in its own way -- almost -- though all the big corn circles up toward Julesburg don't do much for me. But Interstate 76 runs along a high point east of the valley of the South Platte, so even in the corn you get some expansive vistas. It's a pleasant change from all the driving through the Platte River floodplain you've been doing for 400 miles.
This is the 782nd photo I've posted in the Colorado state album, which means I'm only 218 pictures away from that thing where I have to split a state up by county. This is a Colorado-centric trip, but I suspect based on how these things usually go that I'll end up a little shy of the trigger, so while it could happen, it will probably have to wait for the next trip that takes us to Colorado.
That will likely happen next year, because we go to Colorado a lot. I recently did the math and found that of the 104 trip albums I'd created before this trip, 20 have taken us to Colorado for at least one day. In fact, I'm kind of burnt out on Colorado. Well, not really burnt out, say, but maybe a little over-exposed. When Robin first proposed an October trip, I kind of pushed for someplace Eastern, because I was tired of Interstate 80, and we haven't gone East for a while even though I've been trying all year. But we wound up going to Colorado, and it turned out to be a fortuitous thing for a lot of reasons. Colorado always feels homey to me no matter what my mood is going in, and I had a good time, even if things turned weird about an hour or so after I took this for mysterious reasons I won't ever explain!