Planes, Trains and Automobiles!

Well, my holiday's were not short an adventure this year. I spent my time in Colorado with my family, but had a bit of a hard time getting to Denver. For those of you who heard about the blizzard that swept through Denver, it hit the morning I was suppose to get to town. So, my flight out of Seattle was cancelled, and I ended up being redirected to Las Vegas of all places (anyone who knows me, knows that this is the LAST place on earth I would want to go). The flight to DEN from Vegas was cancelled so I ended up having to spend the night (my hotel was right across the strip from the Pyramid casino). Due to so many cancelled flights and other travelers being redirected it looked as if I wasn't going to get out of Vegas for another 2 days! And even then, I was only able to get a flight to Farmington, NM- a small town on the southern boarder of Colorado (yeah, I didn't know where it was either till I looked at a map!) But I was going crazy- I wasn't, couldn't, sit in a hotel in Vegas for two days. . . it was going to drive me crazy! So, instead I rented a car the following morning, and drove to Grand Junction, CO (500 miles) to met my parents there. So here I was, an Alaskan, in Nevada, driving an Arizona registered car, through Utah, to get to Colorado. . . :) :)

We spent the night at my aunt and uncle's place, and then drove the remaining 250 miles to my parents house the following morning. So from start to finish, it was about 66 hours to get to Colorado this year (normally, it's a mere 13 hours!) It was a crazy adventure that I wasn't exactly in the mood to be having, but. . . it worked out, thankfully, like it always does :)