Our 5th and final day of this illustrious journey. We didn’t have too much time for stops today as the trip that took us 3 days out was only going to take 1 day back. We managed to get a couple stops in though. The desert landscapes of Utah were very different than the mountain landscape shots of Colorado. The fact that we saw both in the same day was a little jarring.
I hope our little journey inspires you to do something similar. It’s good cheap fun and we live in a really big country. There’s tons of places just off the road to stop and photograph. We learned about how to do this sort of thing on this trip and I am definitely looking to put what we learned to good use on PSN: Take 2…wherever that may be.
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Day 4 was the actual conference but I’m not going to talk about that here. The conference was very good followed by an after-party down the street. I had the tallest burger I’ve ever seen and walked a lot of it off by wandering the streets of Downtown Denver
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Day 3 found us braving a trek across the treacherous mountain passes. Well, treacherous is a stretch since the weather was actually pretty mild and we aren’t exactly rocking the wagon train or anything like that.
This picture pretty much sums it up. Trees, mountains, snow…not something we get in Vegas too much
He’s trying for an interesting angle, I’m trying to make sure he doesn’t get hit by a truck
The tiny mountain town of Silverton, CO. I didn’t even know this was on the way but it was very cool and quaint and oddly protected, surrounded by these huge mountains all around it
So much better than “Closed”
We went to the Brown Bear Cafe for lunch and they had one of the best pizzas I’ve ever seen. It tastes -at least- as good as it looks
I love watching the snow blow around like sand. It just seems unnatural though maybe it’s just unintuitive
Our trust steed
Finally we arrive in Downtown Denver and it is time for a beer.
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So yesterday on Twitter I post the following tweet
“Getting rickrolled at the Sonic in the middle of effing nowhere,AZ http://bit.ly/14feGc”
Last night, after seeing the tweet, my mom sends me the following e-mail and I just felt I had to share it with everyone. It’s not fair if my sibs and I are the onely ones who know how funny she is.
Referring to your comment in Kayenta. You weren’t in Nowhere, AZ, it is
over by Wikiup. Why, AZ is down by Ajo. There is also a Somewhere,AZ I
think around south of Tucson. Mom
Thanks Ma! I laughed all the way through breakfast after that 
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So we crawl, some of us more reluctantly than others, out of bed and his the road. The more reluctant of us missed the continental breakfast so we had to make a quick stop at McDonalds on the way out of town. Between this picture and coffee, I’m awake!
We headed out to Lake Powell and stopped on this dam that this lady swore was Hoover Dam. Hawkins didn’t have the heart to tell her that although we didn’t know where we were, we were most definitely not at Hoover Dam.
Just past Lake Powell and Glenn Canyon Dam we stopped for gas. This place had no 91 octane, no ATM and was half full of office supplies and indian chotchkies
I have never taken a picture that so looked like a postcard
These two wouldn’t let a guy wizz in peace
Then we found this desert party hot spot. I guess there isn’t a lot else to do around here
Then we moved on to Four Corners. It’s pretty much exactly how I remember it. Plaque set in concrete and otherwise nothing else really going on. I don’t know what these two are doing now, I’m just photographing it
I have been far and wide across our fair country, not to mention some other countries and this is, by far, the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen.
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I had a dream and in that dream Bob Barker spoke to me from beyond the grave Hollywood Hills and it sounded a little something like this….
You’re going to Denver, Coloradooo! (audience cheers wildly at our good fortune) You’ll be staying in the fabulous Courtyard Denver Downtown (by Mariott). Located right in the heart of downtown Denver you can walk to a Rockies, Nuggets, Broncos or Avalanche game. If sports isn’t your thing, and I know it isn’t, you pansy, you’re also within walking distance of the Performing Arts Center. (did Bob Barker just call me a pansy in my own dream?! What the hell -Todd) You aren’t going to be walking the 1.1 miles to the WordCamp event though, that would count as exercise, wouldn’t it? You know it wouldn’t kill you to take a walk every once in a while. I’m dead 85 years old and I get more exercise than you do….
That’s when I wake up in a cold sweat. Nothing like getting hassled by Bob to get the adrenaline pumping.
Priceline kept us from staying 15 minutes away in the Motel-6. I don’t know when I got all snobby. I’d even be willing to pay more for the better hotel but, for the same price, I think anyone would take a Courtyard over a Motel-6 any day.
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Edit: Hey, guess what? Bob Barker isn’t dead. Whoops. Thank you Devin for the heads up. I always assumed that the only way he was leaving “The Price is Right” is on a gurney.
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