I’ve been down with the flu for most of the week, and was pretty much death warmed over until Friday.
Friday morning I made it back into the office for a few hours to take care of things no one else can take care of – and upon returning home I laid down to take a nap at about 2pm … and didn’t wake up until about 7am this morning.
Not too surprising as counting last weekend’s sleepless nights and then the ick keeping me up all night all week – by Friday I was running on like 5 hours of sleep for a week…
But, outside of a slight cough, I’m fine now.
So, this morning at about 10am I decided to go for a drive up to the last Long John Silvers in Denver for lunch.
I’m on the south end of Denver near Parker, and the LJS is at 136th and I-25 on the north end of Denver – and the best way to get from here to there is C-470 … the 75mph toll road that few people use because it’s pay-to-play.
Sure, it’s like $12 each way in tolls, but it allows me to pretend it’s thirty years ago… A time before California and Texas moved in, tripled the population, halved the IQ, and reduced the front range to a perpetual traffic jam.
Case in point was after eating I decided to drive up to Buc-ee’s, which is near Berthoud on I-25. But right after the Longmont exit (CO-119) I-25 turned into a parking lot. According to the navigation system in the Hellcat the traffic wouldn’t get much better all the way to Wyoming, so I crept to the CO-66 exit just past Longmont, made a U-turn over the highway, and headed back home.
Even getting back to C-470 was hellish as I-25 south was also bumper-to-bumper and averaging about 50mph.
But once I got back onto C-470 everything got better again; I set the cruise control to 80, turned up the stereo, leaned back in the laguna leather seat, and enjoyed the next half an hour just cruising along without any real human intervention…
I guess the trick to a nice weekend drive these days is to use toll roads and go east if at all possible.
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