Dinner & an Evening in Glenwood Springs. And a New Suitcase!
Colorado Travelog #33
Glenwood Springs, CO - Thursday, 7 Jul 2022, 11pm
We're now settled in Glenwood Springs for the evening. It feels weird to be here again, as we left here 4 days ago. (I know it seems like forever ago... it was 30 blogs ago!) We're even back at the same hotel, in a room that looks exactly the same. (The views out the windows are different; we're on the opposite side of the building this time.)
It wasn't our plan to double back to Glenwood Springs, at least not originally. It came about when we called an audible and re-planned the second half of this trip two nights ago. But now we're here for two (more) nights. Tomorrow we'll hike Hanging Lake and Saturday we'll drive to Aspen to hike Maroon Lake. We could've stayed a night in Aspen instead but it's literally twice as expensive as here, an hour away. We'll drive an hour to save hundreds of dollars.
Speaking of driving, we got into town late-ish this evening. It was barely 9pm, but it felt later. We'd driven 220 miles in addition to hike several miles in several locations. It was a full day. All we needed was dinner. Well, and a room for the night. But we went to dinner before checking in. We picked an Italian restaurant downtown. Hawk crushed a bowl of pasta and I demolished half a pizza. The other half's now in our refrigerator to be my breakfast. Mmm, cold pizza, the breakfast of champions!
As we left the restaurant we realized we had just 10 minutes or so until stores closed for the evening at 10pm. I wanted to buy some beer... and Hawk wanted to pick up our new suitcase. Yes, if you remember from when we left here 4 days ago, we threw an old, broken suitcase in the trash bin. In the time since then we've done some shopping online. The best deal we found was for a suitcase at Target, with in-store pickup available. There's a target a few blocks from our hotel, so we ordered it from that store's inventory. Thus on the drive to the hotel this evening I dropped Hawk at Target and continued to the liquor store. We met back up at the truck, her with suitcase in hand, and me with a 6-pack of beer. That seems so... appropriate for pickup truck drivers.
Glenwood Springs, CO - Thursday, 7 Jul 2022, 11pm
We're now settled in Glenwood Springs for the evening. It feels weird to be here again, as we left here 4 days ago. (I know it seems like forever ago... it was 30 blogs ago!) We're even back at the same hotel, in a room that looks exactly the same. (The views out the windows are different; we're on the opposite side of the building this time.)
It wasn't our plan to double back to Glenwood Springs, at least not originally. It came about when we called an audible and re-planned the second half of this trip two nights ago. But now we're here for two (more) nights. Tomorrow we'll hike Hanging Lake and Saturday we'll drive to Aspen to hike Maroon Lake. We could've stayed a night in Aspen instead but it's literally twice as expensive as here, an hour away. We'll drive an hour to save hundreds of dollars.
Speaking of driving, we got into town late-ish this evening. It was barely 9pm, but it felt later. We'd driven 220 miles in addition to hike several miles in several locations. It was a full day. All we needed was dinner. Well, and a room for the night. But we went to dinner before checking in. We picked an Italian restaurant downtown. Hawk crushed a bowl of pasta and I demolished half a pizza. The other half's now in our refrigerator to be my breakfast. Mmm, cold pizza, the breakfast of champions!
As we left the restaurant we realized we had just 10 minutes or so until stores closed for the evening at 10pm. I wanted to buy some beer... and Hawk wanted to pick up our new suitcase. Yes, if you remember from when we left here 4 days ago, we threw an old, broken suitcase in the trash bin. In the time since then we've done some shopping online. The best deal we found was for a suitcase at Target, with in-store pickup available. There's a target a few blocks from our hotel, so we ordered it from that store's inventory. Thus on the drive to the hotel this evening I dropped Hawk at Target and continued to the liquor store. We met back up at the truck, her with suitcase in hand, and me with a 6-pack of beer. That seems so... appropriate for pickup truck drivers.