Day 2 of Travels Across a small part of America was a bit dull at first until we started reaching the mountains. A lovely Italian deli for lunch in Steamboat Springs and a change of driver meant that I had the experience of driving over the Rockies along Trail Ridge Road in the Rocky Mountain National Park (just driving through - no time to acquire ranger status). It's rather vertiginous and helped remind me I don't much like heights. This includes driving along them in a big truck-like vehicle on the wrong side of the road with no shoulder or barriers, it transpires.
It was beautiful at the top though. 12000ft or so of lovely.
4 ft or so of lovely.
Being in Boulder was fab. We stayed next door to our friends James and Daniel and they were super hosts. For a weekend we didn't really need to think about anything apart from chatting and enjoying ourselves.
My best bit was a short (for us - long for Marisca) walk in the flatirons and lunch at Chautauqua. Such nice mountainy scenery and flora.
We then spent a geeky hour at NCAR, although we're not geeks so I didn't photograph it. The day rounded off with a trip into Boulder and playing in the fountains, and then a BBQ.
Obviously I went for a run too, with James. Altitude training. We saw some deer hurl themselves into the road, without any of them getting squashed.
My last running selfie of the holiday - I promise. Check out the lake though!
We visiting a couple of little free lending libraries on our travels which was great to improve the variety in our holiday book collection.
And we popped towards Denver for a butterfly pavilion that also featured bees, handling a tarantula (James only), some more fish, and rather too many cockroaches, which were at least well contained.
I kinda feel we did a whole lot more than that, but probably the rest was mostly chat and drinking the only good tea of the holiday.
Thank you for hosting us, James & Daniel!
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