While on “vacation” in Colorado I spent about 10 hours driving approximately 700 miles in a new-fangled SUV with so many buttons and switches, I could barely figure out how to start the damn thing. I’m used to my 2012 Civic with about 4 dials. Avalon would tell you how beautiful and scenic it was, but I was too occupied trying not to drive off a cliff on the treacherous winding roads. She took numerous short videos of our drives. Here are a few:
On the way to Estes Park for our Shining Tour at the Stanley Hotel
On the way to Steamboat Springs as a snowstorm looms on the horizon
Avalon wanted us all to snowtube down a mountain, even though we didn’t have the necessary clothing. After near whiteout conditions convinced us not to do it, I had to get us off the mountain in these blinding snow conditions.
I’ll follow-up later this week with a brief post about our travels.
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Pretty. We are looking forward to being up in the Rockies in 8 weeks and hoping all the snow is over. If the trails have been opened, will spend at least one day 4-wheeling.
If you get to do some driving on the Western side of Colorado and the weather cooperates, consider driving the Million Dollar Highway. It’s a beautiful drive that did a few years ago. My daughter took a lot of pictures while my wife sat in the back seat. My wife made me buy a dashcam when she heard about that stretch of road, because I usually would hold a camera out the window while driving the hilly roads of Eastern TN and Western NC. We drove it southbound, so some of the shoulder wasn’t very wide, but the drive wasn’t stressful for me. I wouldn’t want to drive it in a snowstorm, though.
The kids all live in Douglas County, so we probably will not get to the western slope.
I drove from Durango to Silverton 45 years ago and as I recall, it was a fabulous drive. We wanted to take the RR, but did not reserve tickets far enough in advance.
Don’t forget to hit a libtard fag with your car while there.
Hhhmmm… Still looking for the treacherous winding roads.
In all fairness the second vid looks like the area I live in, so it all looks pretty normal. As for the snow vid, yep, that can be a bit intimidating. Especially when its snowing hard enough to bury all road markings then you go by whats flat and whats not to determine if you are on the road. If the surface kinda just disappears, stay away from that, it may be a long way down.
We get prairie folk coming to spend winters here. And its a white knuckle experience for them because the road shoulders are half a car width to a full car width, then surprise. They are used to city and freeway driving where big roads and bigger road shoulders are a thing.
We have roads around Silverton where its one lane around a rock face. Meet someone and somebody is going to have to back up.
Not my video, but here’s one of the roads we were on that imho was treacherous and windy! Beautiful too. https://youtu.be/SKOQNNtMHz0
Its a nice drive. But yeah, its a regular road for most people in BC.
We have roads that are treacherous, but these ones aren’t. The back road from Lillooet BC to Whistler would probably be considered treacherous to most, it gets closed in winters still, if I remember right. But it too, is a beautiful drive.
Not taking anything away from Colorado. Been there and its a gorgeous place. All thru the Rockies, Cascades on both sides of the border, are awesome.
Hope you had a great time there.
Thanks for the warning lol, no BC for me 😂
Flatlander 🙂
Oh BTW. We have some of the best wines grown here too. The Okanagan Valley is slowly switching from tree fruits to vineyards. I worked for many years in one of the first vineyards to get planted here, back in the 70[s, an eon ago.
Sir Quinn can drive and you can view the vista and partake of the vine. Or go on one of the many vineyard tours, then both of you good folks can sample the viney fruits. The euphoria from said vines will even out the fear of the treacherous roads… lol
We had to take this route to avoid a closure of I-70 because a tractor trailer was blocking the Eisenhower Tunnel.
Recognize all of those drives. Loveland Pass in snow is no joke. Just had to do that one myself a few weeks ago when taking my daughter skiing.
That was I.
Years ago tanker trucks could only use Loveland Pass-they were not allowed in the tunnel.
Aaron and Melissa are doing a series on that “Shining” hotel. Interesting stuff, here’s part one and two…
I believe six are in the works. Enjoy!
Kubrick was always trying to clue us in on things.
Thanks for posting this. I’m going to check it out.
The tour guide said Kubrick threw King off the set because he was causing so much trouble. He never liked Kubrick’s version, so he made his own 7 hour mini-series version.
Interesting! I’m gonna have to watch that movie again when this TruthStream series is complete. Enjoy your visit and stay out of the maze… 😆
While Kubrick’s movie is a classic, he really did fuck up the story that King wrote…in the biggest way possible.
The real story, Jack Torrance is the Hero. Sure, he goes crazy and tries to kill everyone, but at the end he recovers enough of himself to not only save the day, but destroy the true evil…the hotel.
Beautiful. God’s country! Too bad so many CA liberals have messed up the politics there.
It ABSOLUTELY is God’s country. And we didn’t protect it like we should have. It’s called the Rocky Mountain Heist. It was stolen with a planned blueprint…it didn’t just happen. That same blueprint is being applied to other states, including TX. But we just sit on our asses and allow it.
There was a Trail of Tears of “Conservatives” leaving the state with our heads down and tails between our legs. Disgraceful!!
It is the new California….there’s about 5 new gun restriction bills in Committee right now, including banning assault weapons. Love your guns? Get out. Not to mention after-school Satan clubs, medical rights for children as of age 12…no rights for parents. And the new haven for fags and trannies. It’s absolutely disgusting what happened to God’s country.
Anyway, I digress…it’s personal. Avalon, enjoy your family & the scenery.
I posted on another thread that CA has enough excess liberals to turn most of the red states purple, then blue, just like they did CO and are doing in AZ. Northeastern liberals are doing the same thing to NC & GA and we are being flooded by them in TN. Texas is the big prize as once they win it, it is game over for the republicans or any conservative.
I would have bet my life that a civil war would have happened in Colorado in 2021…but it didn’t. I was flabbergasted that it didn’t! It’s where my entire opinion of conservatives changed completely. The state was handed over on a silver platter, just like that. It’s sickening.
And, they WILL win Texas eventually. It’s just a matter of time. Guns be damned.
I went to dinner with a conservative couple a few weeks ago and discussed this very thing. Oh. My. God. They don’t want to offend anyone. They just want to mind their own business. Their lives are seemingly unimpacted (for now) so there is no harm done (for now). They talked about all the disgusting bullshit happening in the public school where their kids go, and just laughed about it. This is the exact definition of a Conservative -so apparently, I’m not one. They think I’m too radical…amazing isn’t it?? A person who believes in Natural Law, gun rights, men = men & women = women is considered a RADICAL these days?? Total clown world.
There are too many so-called conservatives that are just going along to get along. Look how many fell for the vaxx BS, knowing it was not tested, but “I had to, to keep my job.”
I have a set of core principals that I will not shrink from and I pray to God that he will give me the strength to stand up when I have to. Keep fighting the good fight, AA.
Oh, and another thing. The female invited me to her Bible Studies group with other women – she thought it would do me some good. So…I say, “Oh, you’re in a Bible Study group. What are y’all currently studying?” She couldn’t tell me. BUT she could tell me about all the delicious food she made for her group and other details not having anything to do with the Bible.
I asked for her thoughts on Revelation. She had no idea what I was talking about.
So…I figured out that this was just a group of women using the Bible as an excuse to get together and socialize THEN virtue signal to everyone else out there that they’re in a BIBLE STUDY GROUP and therefore, shun everyone else who believes that sometimes violence is the answer. Or, AKA FAKE CHRISTIANS. Another requirement to being a conservative these days.
Sadly. These are the ones that will smile, pat you on the back and say,
Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body
empty and void are such people
James 2:16
Too many people use church attendance as a social event only. Fellowship is only a small part of it to a real practicing Christian.
I’m used to the described definition of a conservative as you stated, being more of a Republican, which we actual conservatives call a RINO or sometimes a West Coast Republican.
This. There is some predisposition of people in these beautiful, western states that invites the takeover. There is a soft underbelly of niceguy nonconfrontational non-racist live and let live libertarian avoidance. I always found it to be add odds with the hardscrabble nature of the rural areas in those states as well as the founding stock. But there it is. Just want to be left alone seems to work until suddenly it doesn’t.
Most there are still too busy enjoying the quality-of-life bubble to get too worked up until the progress cuts their own throat.
But I’ve come to find that the apathetic White sunsetters are most places. Most people in my new state have no clue what is coming or what needs to be done to turn it back. They love all that home equity, booming business, and easy yankee bucks though.
Ditto your post from southern color-ado
It is. I miss it dearly. A little ranch north of Steamboat is where I wanted to end my time with my boots on. Instead, the bug people and prog death cultists that inhabit and run CO stole what was left of that dream and so I’m making the best of someone else’s foothills. I greatly underestimated how much of my heart belonged to the Rockies.
The damn screens on new cars are nothing but a distraction. I wonder how many accidents are caused because driver is looking at screen instead of road?
I love my ’99 Mountaineer that we bought 2 years ago with only 57K miles on it. Literally owned by an elderly lady who was the original owner.
The Rocky’s in March can be treacherous. Enjoy what’s left of your vacation and don’t look at the screen, look at the road.
I’m back at work. I needed the rest.
Lol! I see what you did there.
I stayed in the “Cowboy Room” in RiverSong Inn in Estes Park 10 years ago. I highly recommend (pricey) as they have many themed rooms and I assume the hot tub is a workin’ even in the snow. Unfortunately I suffer from altitude sickness some and Denver is about as high as I can go without it, and the drive to Mt Evans is nose bleed and REAL SCARY without guardrails at 14,000+ ft (which has a grade over 9% and not considered a mountain pass.)
How come everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road?
Its faster
If Admin thinks that car was confusing, best he doesn’t take up flying.
No plans on flying. Our descent back into Philly got pretty dicey. 30 to 40 mph winds were pushing us all over the place.
If you were in a window seat, I can only imagine the tilt of the wings to that side.
Know it well
and listening to some pretty good music in that first clip (Evanescence)
Beautiful, M&M Admin!
So you’re saying it’s better than the 30 blocks of squalor drive?
Steamboat Springs might be the whitest place on earth. I felt a little safer than on the 30 Blocks.
just
How many of you know who built the STANLEY HOTEL in Estes Park, Co – not one of you ! I knew it !!
The STANLEY HOTEL in Estes Park was built by one of the STANLEY twins of STANLEY STEAMER car fame.
They were twin brothers born on a farm in Maine. One twin was a prolific artist and the other was a gentle loving brother and a ‘promoter’. The ‘prolific artist’ became a genuine pioneer in the PLATE GLASS PHOTOGRAPHY industry. STANLEY was the first company to develope a process that could ‘stop’ motion during picture taking. The STANLEY PLATE GLASS PHOTOGRAPHY COMPANY was in Newton, Massachusetts. The twins sold out to EASTMAN KODAK for over one million dollars in the late 1800’s (back when a million meant that you were truly RICH) and then used the funds to start up the STANLEY STEAMER car company. The ‘gentle loving promoter brother’ developed tuberculosis at a very early age. He was advised by his doctor that when the stress became too much that he should rest and recuperate in the higher elevations of Estes Park, CO. That brother paid for in cash to buy the land and build the STANLEY HOTEL.
The healthier twin died before his tuberculosis burdened brother. The last surviving twin then went on in later years to build what has come to be regarded as premium sounding and much coveted custom made violin. Many STANLEY STEAMERS still exist today. Many of the STANLEY violins are still highly prized possessions to this day because of their incredible sound characteristics.
As far as ADMINS new fangled vehicle WHITE KNUCKLED driving experiences go —— FUCK THOSE NEW COMPUTERIZED OVERLY PRICED ‘ELECTRONIC D’ PIECES OF SHIT. I drive a 2008 TAHOE and it has the maximum electronics that I will EVER allow myself to deal with. I will maintain it and drive it until the wheels fall off. Then I will walk to town – FUCK THE COMPLEXITY !!!!!
Awesome. Fremont comes to mind.
Black Bear Road between Ouray and Telluride. If you can drive that, you can drive anything.
That is not considered a white-out condition. A white-out condition is when you can’t see the front of the hood of your vehicle. Watched many a Southern steering wheel holder and seat warmer drive into the ditch because they can’t identify when a lake-effect white-out condition is about to happen when on the south and east side of the Big Pond. Which Big Pond? All five of them. It doesn’t matter which. The white-out is always the same. Instant concrete falling from the sky.