This state is rather flat. I expected it to be mountainous, but clearly that is on the western part of the state. Flatness is actually quite nice when you are driving a U-Haul.
We overnighted in the town of Thornton, which is effectively Denver. We ate a dinner at Applebee’s; not the best choice for Catalina’s birthday, but it was really simple and easy. Afterwards I went for a run to get to my daily mileage goal. It was not a fast run with food in my belly, but it was nice and cool.
This morning I did a quick run to grab some Krispy Kreme doughnuts and a McDonald’s breakfast. Our hotel provides a breakfast, but it is a bag containing a water bottle, a muffin, and sometimes a clementine. It is not the most filling for my stomach when I still need running calories.
We have also discovered that the benefit of driving south, into the sun, is that any food on the dashboard gets heated nicely by the sun. So even hours later, those doughnuts are tasty.
We have hit more construction in Colorado than in all of Montana and Wyoming. It isn’t too bad; I don’t mind the slow downs because we can’t go that fast anyway. But occasionally the single lane highway becomes one way and we have to stop for about five minutes for traffic the other way to get through. Mind you, we are on a smaller interstate, so it is single lane and a lot of speed-trap towns in the way.
There have also been a lot of windmills. It’s nice to see them. I do not think they ruin the view.
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