A Quiet Visit to Denver

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Sailing through Wyoming is sometimes tedious. I was, therefore, understandably excited by an op-ed piece in the Casper ?Star-Tribune? which mentioned some plans for a Billings to Albuquerque high speed rail connection. Turns out it is still in the dreaming stage and probably only from Cheyenne to ABQ. Why don't the states and the feds build the multiple new tracks needed and then let transportation companies compete to move freight and people up and down the Rocky Mountain front?

Took some things to an auctioneer where I found some odds and end from various parts of the 20th century. They had a whole display case full of working slide rules which raised the temperature of my almost dried out nerd juices quite a bit.

We saw a couple of baseball games at Coors Field, but the most exciting thing there was a bunch of old guys signing autographs under the centerfield bleachers. Must have been about 40 or so, a few from the 40s, more from the 50s and 60s and then a few even younger. Very normal, ordinary looking guys, except that they all had a thin blue cloth necklace with a gold star hanging in the front. A few were missing some parts. I shook hands with Staff Sgt McGinty, USMC, who did a very courageous thing in 1966 while serving in Vietnam.

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Photos

Autographs at Coors Field
I found these normal looking guys under the center field bleachers at Coors Field on 17 September 2008.

Where Old Slide Rules Have Been Hiding All These Years
I found these in a large display case at an auction house on Broadway, near downtown Denver.

Scenery in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado & New Mexico
You have to drive fast in country like this or it feels as if you are not moving.

A Mile High View
If you sit up here, you have to have an imagination, and some tissue to staunch your nose bleed.