Saturday, August 23, 2008

11,011 feet (August 22, 2008)

I don't have long to blog, so I'll update my detailed travels in later blogs.

Yesterday we drove from sunup to sundown from Limon, CO to Zion Canyon National Park, via Colorado Springs.

I saw more than a dozen pro-life protesters in Colorado Springs with the most disgusting signs of aborted fetuses. Seriously, no matter what side of the issue you're on, that's just disgusting. Of course, these protesters would be the first to admit that, because that was their point. But I don't believe this belongs on a street corner.

Western Colorado and southern Utah is probably the most beautiful landscape on the planet. I had never seen Colorado outside of the I-25 corridor and the four corners area. I'm glad I finally got to see it. I'd also never been at such a high elevation (11,011 feet) in my life.

We're just about to leave for Zion Canyon at dawn, and then finish up in Las Vegas. Hopefully, we'll get into Las Vegas early afternoon, so I can catch up on my sleep while it's 104 degrees.

But it's a dry heat :).

Seriously, you can knock off 10 degrees from the temperature here to compare to what it feels like in Boston. Still, the equivalent of 94 in Boston is still hot.

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