I can’t believe the incredible day I had. In the morning I started to wonder, the drive through Utah was really amazing. Can I have another great day like that? Sure enough. Going through the Rockies was spectacular. It’s almost May and I couldn’t believe how much snow there still was. I really love roadtrips, because all I really know is where I’m going to end up at night. But I don’t try to plan every detail of the day. I simply let it happen and enjoy the adventure. Along the drive you’ll see something which you like and you check it out. Those funny things which happen along the way are incredible. I thought it’s like a mini-life. You complete the mini-life in one day. :-) You really can’t plan every detail of your life. I like to write out the details, because I love to share them with you, but I will be able to remember more of it if I check it out in a year again and all those memories will come back up. All those little details you can’t remember. There are many other fun/interesting things which happen which I can’t even write all down.
I didn’t have time to write about Vail, CO. It was the first stop. It’s a big ski resort. Right now they are closed so there wasn’t much going on except for the part that I had to have a snowball fight. You can see that in a picture. I saw a guy dressed in shorts and t-shirt. The temperature was 50F (10C). I guess he thought it’s summer. :-)
For some reason I’m quite tired now. It’s midnight around here and I still have a few things to do before I can go to bed. So I’ll keep this short and post the pictures. There isn’t much to talk about North Platte. There are 11 restaurants according to TripAdvisor. Starbucks is listed as number 8 and Coldstone (an ice cream shop) as number 7. So that tells you there are even fewer places you can actually have dinner. Went to Applebees (never been to one before). I was trying to have something without meat, but that’s like impossible in small towns. So I ended up with Grilled Shrimp & Island Rice. It was good.
I also forgot to mention that if you haven’t seen Food, Inc., then you should watch it as that will explain to you what I was talking about “meat producing facilities”. For the Europeans, I don’t think Food, Inc is available there. Don’t feel like checking up on that right now. Now I think the air here has that smell everywhere. Not as bad though. It really was horrible. I’m not sure if my words can really describe what it was like. I even saw one cow standing on a huge mountain of manure.
