Road Trip to Colorado

Michele has moved into her new house in Aurora, CO, so I decided to take a road trip and visit her.

It's approximately 350 miles across Kansas and do you know what the most exciting thing to see while driving across the highway in Kansas? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I was so bored driving I tried to capture a picture of the electric wind turbines. The only other excitement for me was dodging the millions of bugs that stuck to my windshield. Add to that, about 30 miles before you hit the Colorado border, the time changes back an hour so I had to relive that hell for the same hour!

Michele's new house is beautiful and I was kind of jealous of the view she sees while relaxing on her deck.

The next day we headed to Thornton (a northern suburb of Denver) to visit my cousin Shelly. Shelly has also moved into a new house so got to see more new decorating ideas. There is so much new construction around Denver. No wonder supplies are low and prices are skyrocketing.

I have high school friends who moved to Timnath, CO, a couple of years ago so I couldn't pass up an opportunity to go visit them. Timnath is just east of Fort Collins and Fort Collins is an hour and a half from Michele's. That is if you don't run into an accident. With my luck, that's just what happened. So what was supposed to be an hour and a half trip turned into 2 hours. We went to dinner in Fort Collins at this very quaint area (Old Town Fort Collins) that had a variety of restaurants, wine bars, beer tasting bars and boutiques. On Friday nights, they hold concerts in the square. Very cute area.

The drive home didn't seem as bad. Maybe it was because I wasn't expecting anything exciting. My first stop when I got back to Kansas City was the car wash. I tipped the workers a few extra dollars and they must have scrubbed my car for 5 minutes trying to remove every bug from the state of Kansas. Would I go back and visit again? Absolutely! But Michele will have to pick me up from the airport. No more road trips to Colorado!