Lori and I were out of here by 7 and in Denver a little after 9am. Everything was going to plan as we made it to the bank, then to Neiman’s to return some shoes and then to her doctor appointment by 11am. After a ten minute appointment, we were off to pick up her new car. After a 20 minute tutorial, we headed out to get Ty.
We picked him up at 1 and left for home. Arriving in Frisco we stopped for groceries. Lori picked up stuff to make cupcakes with Meredith as well as some craft things that any kid would love. Passing Copper Mountain, she got a text saying the highway was closed. Not sure what was going on, I pulled off at the top of Vail Pass until we knew more. Turns out, a dump truck and an SUV were in a crash and took out a power line that started a fire and both directions of I-70 and Hwy 6 were closed. The best we could find out was it’d be 4 to 8 hours minimum.
Luckily Dea, Meredith’s mom, had a backup plan with someone in Eagle to pick her up, smart. Sitting on top of the Pass, I told Lori, let’s go over Independence Pass into Aspen and come home the back way through Glenwood. Now this was another 3 1/2 hour drive but it was better than sitting. So off we went. Her new Porsche did its thing and we cruised as fast as we could on our new route. I wasn’t sure how far I-70 would be backed up going east as like I said, it was closed in both directions. I had a plan to get off at Dotsero and take the frontage road to Gypsum. After getting closer and having Lori watching Waze and trying to see what was going on by looking at the Cdot cameras on her phone, we decided we’d try for Gypsum on the highway. Luckily we made it. After getting off the highway, we could see the line of semi’s stopped on I-70. Guess it was closed until 10pm but we made it home by 6:30. So, good decision, but it was a total of a 4 1/2 hour drive. Around Copper, Ty, in the back seat, said “ok, I’m going to sleep now”, ha.
Lots going on with both Lori and I. Need to get a lot of things handled. Ty works at 8 this morning and we’ll go to the gym before heading home to get after it. I need to figure out how to stream the CU Nebraska game tomorrow as it’s on FOX which has been blacked out for months due to a contract dispute between Dish Network and whoever owns the rights to FOX. I’ll figure it out but what a bummer. The Lions did beat the Chiefs last night though which was great!
6:24am now so time to get moving. Have a good day, September 8th, wow. There’s a cool down coming in the next few days, God Bless.