March 8, 2024 @ derek.broox.com

March 8, 2024

I slept 7.3 hours, checked in to 5 places, took 31 photos, wrote 1 microblog, and walked 3.9 miles. I was in North Platte, Elsie, Keenesburg, Vail, Moab, Idaho Springs, Gypsum, Cisco, Julesburg, Fleming, Arvada, Evergreen, Frisco, Edwards, Wolcott, De Beque, and Clifton.

	12:05 am	fell asleep
	8:02 am	woke up after sleeping 7.3 hours
	8:11 am	checked in at Plaza 80, North Platte, Nebraska
	8:30 am	Interstate's still closed... gonna try the back roads.
	9:57 am	checked in at Hi-Line Cooperative, Elsie, Nebraska
	10:49 am	Made it to Colorado. These back roads were sketchy af.
	11:46 am	Backroads clearing up on the way to Sterling. Interstate is still closed.
	12:58 pm	checked in at Kum & Go, Keenesburg, Colorado
	1:36 pm	Kari's adaptive cruise control sensor was frozen and gave me a collision warning every time that I passed someone else on the interstate.
	1:55 pm	The fog and snow made the trees pretty incredible as we pulled into the Rockies
	2:00 pm	Idaho Springs
	2:45 pm	Durby is ready to cuddle
	3:16 pm	Another snow storm, stopped traffic, and a fire truck on i70. Sweet.
	3:28 pm	Kari takes Durby for a walk on i70
	3:50 pm	Jack knife boyz
	3:50 pm	Thanks for setting us back another hour, semi boyz
	3:57 pm	First time driving this far west on i70. The weather / climate changes through the Rockies are wild.
	4:04 pm	checked in at West Vail Shell, Vail, Colorado
	4:09 pm	All gangsters are silly
	4:21 pm	Feels very good to be past the weather
	4:27 pm	Western Colorado driving
	4:29 pm	The mountain curves are so much more relaxing past the weather and traffic
	4:39 pm	Curves
	4:48 pm	Glenwood Canyon was very cool. I want to drive through again.
	4:50 pm	Driving through Glenwood Canyon. I didn't get any photos of the coolest parts.
	5:51 pm	Driving along the Colorado River
	6:04 pm	Weird landscape around Grand Junction
	6:48 pm	The desolate start of Highway 128
	6:57 pm	Utah Curves and Mounds
	7:08 pm	Mesas at Dusk
	7:12 pm	Driving through the Moab canyons
	7:15 pm	I did not expect highway 128 to be so crazy
	7:17 pm	The Mesas in moab are just gigantic
	7:35 pm	checked in at Red Cliffs Lodge, Moab, Utah
	7:40 pm	Intended to get to our Moab cabin well before dark... We sorta made it.
	7:40 pm	The view in front of the cabin
	7:44 pm	The Colorado River in the back yard
	8:29 pm	When in Utah...
	10:13 pm	i70 to highway 128 into Moab is one of the most beautiful drives that I’ve driven. Winding roads alongside the Colorado River, through the Rocky Mountains, Glenwood Canyon, and massive red mesas and buttes. Shit is spiritual.
	11:28 pm	fell asleep