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Gender: Male
City: Tucson
State: ARIZONA
Country: US
Friday, April 20, 2007 4:26 AM

Current mood:  cheerful
Category: Travel and Places

The drive from Santa Fe, NM was scenic.  One thing to note, get gas when you can.  I had a half-tank when leaving Santa Fe, and I just wanted to get out of town.  My stay there was deplorable and I didn't want to dawdle.

I missed the next few exits for gas, thinking that I'd wait until I was closer to a quarter-tank.  That was a mistake.  A hundred miles or so without an exit with services and I started thinking about how long AAA would take to get to me and if I could make a preemptive service call.

Luckily, just as I'm about to be on fumes, I hit an exit with a gas station.  It was the most expensive gas so far on the trip, but I took every drop I could put in the tank.

There was some construction between Boulder and Pueblo and I learned that Colorado drivers will stop, fully, on the highway, to gawk at anything on the side of the road.  More than once I found myself standing on my break while people stared at construction equipment or some other mundane thing.  I figured it was just me, until at one such occurrence, I heard the inevitable sound of tires squealing and looked to see a truck next to me sliding into his spot as cool as if he expected no less.  This led me to believe that this is just a natural part of driving in Colorado.

Colorado was nice, and very windy.  I took 470 to skirt Denver.  Although traffic was light, and it was a beautiful clear day, there was a $2 toll plaza every 2 miles.  It cost me $10 to do the 30 mile road.  Expensive, but I think that going through downtown Denver would have been worse.

I arrived at the Day's Inn in Ft. Morgan in decent time, checked in, and got some "real" food at a local Chinese restaurant.  The food was plentiful for the price, but the Dragon Village in Oro Valley is better.  But anything is better than McDonald's or other "road food".
Currently listening:
The Best of Sweet
By Sweet
Release date: 04 May, 1993
 
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