Thanksgiving in Denver!

Our tour through southwestern Colorado was cut short by some severe winter weather.  We were in Moab, Utah preparing to travel south to Mesa Verde National Park, Durango, Silverton, and Ouray, Colorado when the meteorologists announced that a strong and frigid weather system was making its way towards the Colorado mountains from California.  The Rockies were expecting 1-3 feet of snow within the next 2 days.  In light of the new weather alerts, we decided to scratch our plans of seeing the points mentioned above and headed straight for Denver.  

We left our campsite in Moab and jumped on I-70 which took us straight over the Rockies of Colorado, all the while listening to the updated weather forecasts on the radio with dark looming clouds right behind us.  We started seeing some snow flurries as we passed through the ski area of Vail, Colorado.  It was now 9 pm and it seemed like we were the only ones on the road at that time- well, us and the snow plows ready for action.  We made it to our campsite outside Denver safely that night, excited to see our good friends in the coming week, but sad that we had officially started the decrescendo of our trip.  Two months down, one to go… Time flies…

The next week was spent hanging out with friends that we had known since grade school, drinking good wine, eating deep fried turkey, and laughing until we cried.  We couldn’t ask for a better Thanksgiving.