20 May, 2006 (Saturday) Denver (momentarily), Colorado

We're heading straight East now across country. It's a lot of driving, and the sun continues to beat down on us. We're hoping to do little over a state a day, which means that we see a bit of scenery but little else. By the time we settle each night the sky is darkening and we have barely time to cook before darkness sets in. The locals seem nice enough, and petrol prices are dropping. So far the most expensive state has been California, by a good 40c/gallon. (Picture: Grand Canyon - the Watchtower)


Central timezone
Passed Aspen and a stack of the Colorado ski hills. Some still have snow on their tops. It's strange how close these places are to the highway.

We're now in Kansas and have jumped timezones. It's 2 hours ahead, so we've lost a few hours driving time. Damn.


Colby Nightlife
It's a Saturday night so Sean and I thought we'd see if there was a pub in these parts. We cruised for half an hour before giving up. The streets at 9:30pm are dead. Colby has no nightlife. This was confirmed when we stopped by Walmart (24 hours!) and the cashier laughed when I asked about what there was to do of a Saturday night. "Your best bet is to see if there is anything happening in a corn field" he told us. Then again, he's apparently up here from New Orleans, so maybe he's just bitter that Colby isn't under 5ft of water.


Cash deficit
I'm running out of cash, so on Monday I'm going to have to search out a bank. The $US1,300 I started with has lasted me just over 3 weeks, so I'm averaging about $60 a day in expenditure. These days about half of that is on petrol. It's currently costing us between $8-10 per hour of driving. The jeep is leaking a bit of oil, but otherwise seems to be doing fine. Go Cherry, go!

Today we passed through Denver.