Woohoo! Left Hays just before 7am and, lemme tell you, it was cold. Western Kansas is much like eastern Kansas and eastern Colorado is much like western and eastern Kansas. Flat to the horizons. The road is stick straight. Then you notice you've been climbing and now you're at 3500 feet, then 4000, 4800 and then the magic mile 5,280 feet above sea level and you're still going up!
You're all wrapped up in watching the altitude climb (on your iPhone duh) until you come up over a rise and there they are. In the distance but still awe inspiring. We were about 40 miles east of Denver at that point and Terry's comment was how it would have taken the pioneers two days to travel the 40 miles we were going to cover in the next 30 minutes or so. Think on that for awhile.
Then Denver. And Saturday morning ski traffic. But who cares?? We were driving across the Rocky Mountains and the scenery was majestic! Rivers and rocks and big horn sheep and tunnels and gorges and snow blowing from the top of the mountains. It was wonderful.
We stopped in Grand Junction for the night and found Orrs' Trading Company and it's lovely manager, Debora, and we bought some beads and feathers and honey and there was plenty more we left behind. So tonight's pair is the outcome of all that and, furthermore, these were designed by Terry. Presented with no further ado and just 340 more pairs of earrings about which there will be much ado and to do and hoodoo and would you? Please? Just once? So he did.
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