morning in the sunshine with 3 inches of melting snow
on the ground. Labored over Loveland and Vail passes
in dreadful weather, snow, slush, wind, giant trucks
but eventually dropped back down to a more humane
altitude and rolled into Colorado National Monument
outside Grand Juction about 5:00. A red mesa with
numerous canyons carved into it. Very few people in
the campground. Met a young German couple who, for
the second spring, are delivering a new RV from South
Bend, IN to LA, paying only insurance and gas. They
get 3 weeks and 3000 miles to do the trip. It's a 21
foot, very fancy machine which, they say, would be a
palace in European RV circles where gas is $8.00 a
gallon.
Met a guy from Burlington who spends winters teaching
skiing in Breckenridge, CO and summers teaching
sailing in Malletts Bay.
Some things from the past two weeks:
At the Conference on World Affairs at CU I heard
Rachel Maddow who has a radio show on Air America.
She is very cool. She's been the token progressive on
some cable talk shows, usually does her show from NYC
but did it live from the conference for 5 days. I
went and saw her 4 times.
Saw the Slipstream-Chipotle Bike Team hanging around
in front of Boulder's most expensive bike shop. They
are one of two American teams invited to the Tour de
France.
I rode public buses a few days and everyone, college
students, old fogies, all say hello and thankyou to
the busdrivers when they get on and off.
Finally passed another biker. And seconds after got
smoked by six guys with matching jerseys.
Drove up to Rocky Mountain National Park and saw elk
and pronghorn sheep.
There are signs on classrooms in the new business
school building at CU designating which are still
available for naming (for a price, of course).
Discovered that there are 10 different flavors of Goldfish.
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