One More For The Road
All the vacation/road trip pix are finally posted!
Man, that was almost as tiring as all that driving! Ok, not really... but it took awhile to "narrow" it down to 119 "better" photos... and here is another one of them!
This is on the famed Million Dollar Highway between Ouray and Silverton... how it got its name is disputed, some say it cost $1 million dollars per mile (in the 1920s!) to it containing $1 million in gold ore... nevertheless, the views are priceless. What you are seeing is a two-lane highway for both north and southbound traffic... yes, oncoming cars will be on that outer edge... and, not sure if you can sense it... but I would be very surprised if a slip off the road would be survivable!
For those of living in the "city," it is often hard to imagine all the wide open spaces there are in this country. Heck, I probably didn't realize it until I ventured off the East Coast at nearly 20-ish years old.
In particular, on this road trip, it was just staggering to think of all the labor and ingenuity that it took to create these roads -- especially without the technology of today -- and in such remote locals and what had to be some extreme weather conditions. I often sighed as I would round a corner and see how far we still had to go on a highway... but only to imagine what it felt like to those who were building it decades and decades ago!!
Besides, the roads... you look around... again it is just unfathomable that every light pole, every fence post, every electrical tower, every railroad track was put down by someone!
Okay, one last plug for my photos... choose your degree of interest:
The Complete Road Trip Flickr Set
The 2007 MINIs in the Mountains "Only" Set (included in the above)
Have a nice weekend... and we'll return to our non-travel obsessed blog entries next week!
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