and now for a brief pronouncement:
things discovered while hanging about the greater denver metropolitan area:
-all cars are sold by two people - burt or jon elway. seriously. i haven’t yet seen a dealership not owned by one or the other. and i have no idea who this ‘burt’ character is either. sounds shady…
-they’re not joking when ‘they’ talk about the smog in denver. it hangs over the city like a giant, brown, slightly transparent lump.
-an entire private city/office complex/golf course with its own logos, street layouts, sign posts and such. one wrong turn and i was stuck there for the better part of an hour trying to find my way out of the winding streets. the streets all turned back into the center of the place with just a couple of exits out to the real world.
-the mountains are beautiful. that is, of course, when you can see them through the smog.
it’s an odd place this, not bad, not good, just not for me.
some friends to see tomorrow and then on to cali and the summer employ.
Comments
i wouldn’t trust burt either
Posted by: brook | May 28, 2004 09:43 PM
nathan
you are right about denver. flat, smoggy, and lightly ominous.
enjoy that sun though.
adam (recently landed on native soil in NYC)
Posted by: adam | May 29, 2004 06:17 PM
According to the ex, Colorado holds all the keys to ones eternal happiness, but, that’s if you actually live in the purple mountains and have the money for a season’s lift ticket at winterpark and own your own equipment. If you don’t like to ski, you’re up shit creek without a paddle. I didn’t like Denver either. Enjoy the trip out, it gets better the further west you go.
Posted by: eliza | May 31, 2004 09:49 PM
ok, denver sucks, but what big cities dont? The mountains are everything. I can drive, hike the continental divide, and be back home on the couch in 5 hours round trip. thats freaking close for me. The outdoor possibilites here are damn near limitless, you just have to look beyond the terrible drivers of denver, the dirty hippies of boulder, and the long traffic jams on I-70 on the weekends.
Posted by: luke | June 14, 2004 04:06 PM