Honeymoon Day 15 - Craig, CO to Denver, CO (25 November, 2005)

Our goal today was to head out early and get to the east side of Denver to spend the night. Thinking that it would be too hard to drive all the way to Nebraska City in one day, we felt good about our decision.

We also decided to try and see some of Rocky Mountain National Park (as long as we had the national parks pass) and perhaps do some shopping at REI Camping Store in Denver.

Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park was closed after the first 10 miles of road, but we were lucky and saw a mother and baby moose walking through the woods just next to the road.



We managed to do everything we set out to do and found a couple of pretty nice deals at REI (down jacket for $60 - who could resist?!?)

Just around the corner from REI was a nice sushi restaurant and Laura and I really enjoyed our meal there.

From there we decided to try and drive to the junction of I-76 and I-80 to find a hotel, but our options were growing more and more scarce as the miles ticked by, so we stopped off at some place in the middle of nowhere and turned left where we should have turned right...4 miles and quite a bit of frustration later we were in a nice clean room with a good shower and decent wireless access.

Tomorrow we take on Nebraska!

P.S. - from Craig, CO to Denver, CO (by way of Steamboat Springs) we were climbing and descending mountain passes all afternoon. In spite of this, we managed to reach 40+ miles per gallon...woo hoo!!