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17 inches of rain in 2 days at one point, then 40 inches of snow above 4000 feet.
 
Eloisel has a car that will go 400 mph. She can make Seattle easy.



But stay away from fucking Leo's. That place is shit.
 
Don't be jealous because your car can't.

Next time I go to New York I'm flying in to NYC and taking mass transportation. Never driving in NYC or Boston ever again,
 
I would have liked to hit Boston or NYC when I went to Washington this fall, to a wide open west kid like me it seemed very very close. But the reality is that there wasn't enough time/money/patience to do any of it justice. Hell, there was stuff I missed in DC and we were right on the mall. Hey Jack, if you haven't seen it yet go make a point to hit the Holocaust museum. Worth every minute. One of the best stops we went to.
 
Awesome...we're going to start traveling in May next year and are planning a couple trips a year somewhere. Sounds like a good stop.
 
Both the boy and I loved it, and for a jaded teenager that's saying something. Coolest part is the entryway: you take a booklet designed to look like a passport that has an actual person's name and picture and story in it, and as you go through the museum you follow along that person's story and where they wound up. You in effect become them for the chronologically set up museum trip. I wanted to collect more of them, there are thousands of them as you can imagine, all unique.
 
Plus, don't forget that every memorial and museum and government attraction is free to the public. Very reasonable to visit aside from accomodations. Parking sucks too, but they have a fantastic system of buses and subways. We stayed at a little old hotel called the George Washington Inn, but we had to park under the watergate hotel. Near as I can tell, no one broke into the car. But when we left town, part of my tapes were missing.
 
Washington is another place on the list to visit. But, like you mentioned, it is a place to spend more than a couple of days to properly visit.

The main difference I see in the roads in the big cities up north and the roads in the big cities down south are the pedestrians. Herds of pedestrians walked out in front of the cars in both Boston and NYC no matter that the car had the right of way due to a green light. That doesn't happen in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Miami, Los Angeles, Phoenix, or any other place I've been south of the New England states. Denver has its little oddity, where pedestrians have the catty corner crossing at intersections, but the pedestrian traffic is still governed by light signals.

Still want to go to Rome and London. Friends of mine are in England right now. They are posting on FB pictures of their visit to Stonehenge, the London Tower, and the Queen's Palace. They are super tourists but they look like they are having the best of times there. Not envious at all - just happy they are fortunate to enjoy travelling. Someday I'll get to go that way too. Retirement is around the corner! (Okay. A little envious.)
 
Denver is an odd mix of orderly city planning and retrofit to make up for an exploding population. Back in the day, downtown was a completely clusterfucked mishmash of oneway streets placed at 45 degrees to the rest of the city grid, like a diamond placed inside a square. It was odd and extremely inconvenient. Then sometime after the built the new interstate 25, they turned a lot of downtown into pedestrian friendly walkways etc. I haven't been back since they did that but I hear it was a great improvement.
 
I lived there in the late 70s. Mostly relied on walking and public transport to get around. It was faster and safer when the place was covered in snow. The streets downtown had steam coming out of them. Elsewhere the streets were cluttered with giant balls of ice, grit, and yuck. Was fun to watch the skiers going to work on the sidewalks.

I'd like to visit Denver again and see how it has changed.
 
I went to Denver a couple times when I was living in Santa Fe. My favorite part of the trip was always Raton Pass near the border. Of course I was so fucking high all the time back then my impressions of it today would probably be quite different.
 
Raton Pass must be the thing of the month or something. My neighborhood book club just read "The Christmas Train" by David Baldacci wherein the characters travel through Raton Pass and get caught by a couple of avalanches. Just got an invite for a writers excursion on a train going through Raton Pass. Three other people I know have mentioned Raton Pass to me in other contexts this month. Now you mention it. While I may have gone through the tunnel in Raton Pass when I lived in Colorado because we drove all over that state sight seeing while we lived there, I don't remember hearing the name before this month.

How did you like living in Santa Fe? What took you out that way? I thought you were New England born and raised.
 
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