Colorado Rockies (1a)

Though the scenery in Colorado is gorgeous, my trips exploring rural Colorado have discouraged me from returning. I've generally found Colorado drivers to be particularly pushy whenever I've been in any part of the Colorado Rockies. On this particular trip the tail-gating was some of the rudest I've seen, with several instances where pickup trucks rode so close that I could distinguish, in my rear view mirror, the dead bugs on the truck's hood. Though most of the roads in the Rockies are two lane and winding, many people seemed to have to drive 70 regardless of road conditions or if you were in the middle of some village where the speed limit was posted at 35. It seemed that if you wanted to actually see and enjoy the scenery, that was your stupidity. It's too often been a nasty experience, enough that it has left me with a sense of not wanting to deal with going through Colorado.

Photo taken in 2002, larger size picture no longer available.