So this whole Colorado trip sounded great!!! You ride from hut to hut, they provide food and water and you pedal through the most beautiful state I have ever seen thus far. Sorry if I offend anyone who lives somewhere I have not traveled to yet. It’s not my fault, going with the modern trend, I will blame my parents…… You see they took us on vacation every year, to the UP, if your not from Michigan that is the Upper Peninsula. Michigan is a great state, we have two Peninsulas joined by a bridge and a ton of water that is spectacular. What Michigan doesn’t have is mountains. The kind of mountains where everything can kill you, but I am digressing.
Driving to Colorado was going to be a 20 plus hour drive that I knew would be tough. Driving that long in a vehicle will test people and make them edgy. Luckily, we were an amazing group of people that got along well and worked together in a manner that didn’t piss anyone off. One the way out we stopped often for gas and food. This allowed us to stretch our legs and get out of what we affectionally called the “creeper van” Scooby Doo had the Mystery Machine, we could name our van something cool, I thought it looked like a white rhino but creeper van stuck. A large white van with dark tinted windows is normal right? Want some candy?……..
Along the way we stopped for meals, and we stopped for gas and we stopped for breakfast the next day. We saw some crazy things. Like somewhere in Nebraska I think we saw some very large girl draped over the hood of a redneck ford. You can’t unseen that. This was the kind of gas station where you try not to touch anything, especially the toilet that was rotated clockwise a few degrees.
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