Vail to Home
Summer Vacation 2017, “Out West!”
Day 15: Vail to DEN to STL to Ballwin
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1)Early rise to make sure we got going, to beat the Denver traffic and get to the airport
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2)Beautiful mountains to drive through
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3)Driving through the tunnel at the highest point of the US Interstate system - the eastbound Johnson Tunnel is named for the Senator who helped get it built, while only the westbound tunnel is named the Eisenhower Tunnel
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4)Awesome photos by Abby on the departure
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Photos:
Our drive:
The morning drive was relaxed and beautiful.
And we were impressed, and surprised, to see these people biking up the interstate (not that there was a frontage road to be on, there isn’t), but the climb...
After a mountain peak, it’s all downhill (and that behind you is still “way up there”)
Abby wrote about President Eisenhower for her fourth grade Presidential Report. Since he signed the law passing the Interstate system, the westbound tunnel, the longest and highest in the US, is names for him. We officially drove through the Johnson Tunnel, named for the Colorado Senator who helped bring I-70 to Colorado.
Golden, home to Coors, and just beyond this turn, we departed the mountains and returned to the plains in and around Denver.
Drive... now complete!
I am surprised I blurred this, thought it does make for an “artistic effect.”
Miles: 3,003 - original 5 = 2,998 driven in two weeks.
In Denver’s Terminal C.
Some awesome photos by Abby, while we pushed back and taxied.
On descent, the confluence of the Missouri curving as it flows into the Mississippi River, making the third-longest in the world.
Landing for only the third time ever on runway 24.
Taking some “Welcome to St. Louis” photos in baggage claim.
Shared by our friend, Silke.
Links to the rest of this travel journal:
Moab to Vail
Day 15 - Thursday, June 29, 2017
