Travel impressions:
We flew out to Denver and drove to Breckenridge, Grand Lake, Estes Park. we took MARTA to the airport, it was crowded going down, and packed coming back, mostly with students from a private school, mostly younger girls in short skirts, which I found a bit surprising, private school and all that (Westminster Academy, school uniforms).
The plane both ways was completely full, they were asking for volunteers going out. I guess I'm getting old, I don't much relish plane travel. Atlanta airport was as crowded as I've ever seen it going out, about normal coming back, still crowded. People are "back to normal" COVID or not. We stayed at a nice resort in Breck, it was full, the town was pretty crowded despite the off season, it was cold, we saw 17°F one morning and some snow. We had two nice dinners out, and one pretty bad.
I had reserved two nights in Grand Lake expecting to take the short drive through the park to Estes Park but the road was closed even though there was hardly any snow. That dictated a 3.5 hour drive around including a stretch on I-70 which is rather unpleasant driving for me anyway. I rented some kind of Kia that was "power deficient". was on the floor fairly often. Berthoud Pass is interesting. We tried a bit of climbing up from Loveland Pass which is at 11,990 feet, I'd take maybe 30 steps and have to stop for air. You can see I-70 down way below before it enters the tunnel under the mountains. We saw the Colorado River in the RMNP, interesting. I hear it gets larger downstream.
