aspen - day 1

after a month long absence i have returned. sometimes the time gets away from me. that's the motto of this summer though. all time has been doing is getting away from me. so anyway, back to the point. aspen - day 1.

the day started out with a hugely long time in the airport and on airplanes. well hugely long for me since i hate to sit still for any extended period of time. no worries though, i read almost an entire janet evanovich book. we landed in denver around 3 and were on our way in our rental car by 4.

the road trip consisted of some super cute mining towns, amazing mountain scenes, a stop in silverthorne for dinner and the scariest drive of my life. we crossed the Continental divide (sweet!) and traveled along independence pass (scary!). the road is two lanes and you are climbing the mountains, no guardrails - not one, hairpin turns and a 500 ft (at least) drop, oh and there are times where there is only one lane. that's right one lane and 500 ft drop. the road is not usually open in the winter. it was totally amazing though. the last picture gives you an idea of the edge of the road, guardrailess drop off. tracey (sean's sister) and i were in a panic the entire time. a mindset that i am sure was not helping sean(who was driving) one bit. fortunately, the scary part was only for about the last hour of a 3-4 hour road trip.

all these photos were taken from the car - we couldn't stop at all because we didn't want to be driving independence pass in the dark. there probably could have been more photos of the pass but i was too busy trying not to have a panic attack.

more to come, stay tuned...