{"id":1603,"date":"2017-09-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/normpyle.com\/2017\/09\/07\/back-to-colorado\/"},"modified":"2019-08-31T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T20:33:53","slug":"back-to-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kneedeepinit.com\/back-to-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOn the Road Again – doing it in 3 days this time.\n\t
Here’s an update on our quick journey to Colorado. We left our Siesta Key rental house a couple days early – the fact that it had rained 3 days straight prior to our departure sure made it easier to leave. On this part of the journey, we changed our approach from our casual, meandering trip on the way down (~6 hours driving per day, multi-day stops), to a higher paced, no nonsense haul back to CO with a straight-forward path, and driving about 10 hours each day. We also took a different route than before (which was straight south into Texas and across Dixie); this time it was a northerly route into the heart of the mid-west, then west from there.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\tLoading up, I noticed this little hitchhiker. He is not going to like Colorado!\n\t
But we still tried to have a little fun on the way; all this road-tripping had us really noticing the various places we were flying by and flying through. Florida billboards were simply filled<\/em> with ambulance-chasing lawyers. I guess these fine attorneys don’t need to chase ambulances when their humongous faces are looking down on every accident in the state, saying “Injured? Call me!”. Georgia on the other hand, seemed to have quite their share of “adult superstores”, judging by their highway billboards. Georgia also had more police cars on their highways than I’ve seen in my life, holy cow! It must be a big part of their revenue stream in that state. Also I noticed their patrol cars are painted blue with orange accents – my Florida Gator buddies will recognize this as an obvious attempt to build animosity toward Florida! \ud83d\ude42 Both states BTW, also had a LOT of “Jesus saves” billboards and radio stations – the Bible Belt remains strong in the midst of all the debauchery!<\/p>\n By the end of the first day, we were in Smyrna, Tennessee near Nashville, in the nicest La Quinta we’ve seen. We like LQ because they are pretty economical and all of them are pet friendly. So the Littles are welcome guests, yes! We have a nice portable kennel for them that we fill with their blanket and toys, and they hop right in. When it’s time to go, this thing folds and rolls up like those sun shades for car windshields.<\/p>\n