Road trip

Steve and I drove to Fort Collins today.

It's a five hour drive.

We left at 7:30 am and arrived in Fort Collins at 4:30 pm.

That's way more than five hours.

We knew we were taking the scenic route. We consciously chose to take the scenic route.

What we neglected to factor in was that the scenic route we chose is a dead end in the winter.

Now I know that according to the calendar, it is no longer winter.

However, we're talking about the mountains in Colorado. The mountains in Colorado thumb their noses at the calendar. (Do mountains have noses?)

So, here in Colorado, some roads are still closed for the winter. We could have easily discovered this if we had checked.

But, instead, we opted to find out the hard way . . .