Driving toward Denver is an amazing journey. We saw some clouds in the distance, but after a few miles, we realized that it’s really snow on top of the mountains, majestic mountains. Driving through Colorado is a real treat. We made it to Denver and knew we needed to find a local hotel for the night and to figure out where we would go next. We were truly winging it, an unplanned adventure. We never discussed going anyplace in particular, we just let the roads and the beauty of America take us where she wanted to take us.

Initially, we thought we’d just have a quick stop-over here in Denver, maybe grab some dinner or check out the club scene , but we could tell this city requires more from us than a stop-over. We were on I-70, but then we saw a southerly turn on to I-25, we took it. It still kept us in Denver, but in a different area other than where I-70 would’ve taken us, more industrial, mile high flea and farmers markets, and factories. What an odd juxtaposition. What we didn’t realize as we were looking up at buildings, were the all the cars in snow banks. Apparently, we just missed a huge snow storm! We were happy that Denver keeps the roads maintained, but we did see a few ice patches ; coming from Minnesota those ice patches were nothing we couldn’t handle.

We were passing through downtown Denver and I couldn’t believe just how slow the drivers were going, below the speed limit. I guess they aren’t used to driving in winter weather conditions, but we managed to find a great place to stay and they had their own restaurant inside, which was great, because we didn’t realize just how tired we were, we didn’t feel like driving around anymore. After we had a wonderful dinner, we went up to our room and pulled out a map. We closed our eyes and both put our index fingers down on the map. It was so funny how we both picked the Grand Canyon in Arizona! So, after a day of exploring more of Denver, West we go!