1 year anniversary mega-trip
The r-dub site has been online one year as of 5/12/06, and I thought it best to celebrate with another roadtrip. I planned this one out before leaving home, and just kept going until the batteries in my camera were dead and the memory card in my camera almost full. What I was left with was a ton of pictures and a car with an additional 720 miles on it. Okay, maybe this trip was a little too long...
And don't you come back no more no more no more no more.
Heading out of downtown Denver now. We'll start to head west so we keep the sun at our backs. Better pictures that way, dontchaknow.
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Back to roadgeeking, here's the way onto I-25's HOV lanes. If the lanes are open for inbound downtown traffic (which they are currently), that traffic uses the flyover you see in the background to enter downtown on 19th.
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For the rest of us plebians that aren't good enough for a HOV lane, we get to go under a few bridges.
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Approaching I-25.
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Lotsa traffic goes north, can you tell?
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Shooting into the sun at the 20th. Street merge. Can you find the minor sign goof on those signs?
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Exiting to 70 from NB 25 puts on a long offramp. Before the second lane to Limon was open here, backups often stretched back to the beginning of the ramp, a little less than a mile back.
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My guess: a roadgeek was so impressed with the state name being in the shields that he/she didn't see the crash barrier. I'm probably wrong.
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Considering I had some chile con carne last night, my emissions have already been monitored, thank you very much.
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So I had to stop, back the car up to the sensor, and rev the engine. Okay, I didn't, but that would have been fun. At least until someone else came barreling down the ramp.
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CDOT, make up your mind! Is it 1500 feet or 1/4 mile? (No, they're not the same)
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I think the shield is hung so low so that drivers can see it under the streetlight. (Line of sight is our friend). And why does this streetlight have its own break in the guardrail?
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Just a shot of the curves inherent in this stretch of I-70.
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Well, something's at the next right. Hope it wasn't that important.
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A diagrammatic (kinda) at Wadsworth.
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See how there's a merging lane just after the VMS? That's the merge from I-76's END! (That's #6 for this trip)
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Another END! (#7) 391 heads south from here. I didn't even mean to get this one. I got the pics because I wanted to make fun of the lack of curved borders on the sign.
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Approaching end #8.
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End #8 in all its glory. We'll be exiting the interstate now.
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The first reassuarance shield on 58.
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58 travels through the southern edge of Golden. That's the Coors brewery in the foreground, and a reminder that "M" is for mountain in the background ;P (I couldn't resist the dig on the Colorado School of Mines)
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Golden provides tourists guide signs to its attractions.
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Just west of Golden, 58 loses its highway status...
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...with an intersection with US 6 and SH 93.
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Dueling ends! (#8a and 9 for me today) This is the last few feet of SH 58, and SH 93 starts to the right.
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Closer to the intersection.
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The first reassuarance shield for 93.
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Interesting font here.
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Doubling back to US 6/SH 58. Here's the last few feet of SH 93.
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Who here has heard Arlo Guthrie's Motorcycle Song? Sing along now: "I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride on my motorcycle. I don't want a tickle, I'd rather ride on my motorcycle. And I-I don't wanna die, I just want to ride on my motorcy........cle." Good times.
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Looking up SH 58. No, we're not going that way.
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Looking towards Clear Creek Canyon on US 6. We're not going that way, either.
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We're heading east on US 6 for a bit. This is what it looks like just to the west of Golden.
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Now you see why. I'm jonesin' for another end.
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This Taj Majal style building houses the Jefferson County offices. Tax dollars at work.
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Coming up on end #1a (got the other part, remember?)
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The west end of SH 470. For the first 1/2 mile of its existence, 470 is on bridges.
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Exiting onto 470. The sun in my eyes is getting annoying.
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The West 70 part is here so that drivers would remember they can't access WB 70 ahead anymore.
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470's first reassuarance shield. Speaking of WB 70, that sounds like a good idea.
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Just after 470, 70 climbs straight up the side of a mountain. I'm not kidding.
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This was an END! of a state highway. It was turned back within the last few years.
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While the straight up part is done, 70 still gains some massive altitude. Hence the lane restrictions. It's not uncommon for cars to be doing 75 past trucks doing 30. It gets hairy.
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Dual-purpose shot. First, the distances. We're not going all the way to Junction, sorry. Also, the semi behind the sign is actually on US 40. It closely parallels the I and silently merges up ahead.
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A shot of the EB's emergency truck ramp. I've always found it interesting that the ramp is alongside the road.
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Approaching the Genesse Park bridge. This was built without a center pier for a reason.
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This would be that reason. This also marks the end of the long climb uphill from Denver.
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Here's end #10.
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Sh 74 goes around that ridge then drops into Evergreen proper. And that orange truck ahead of us is a CDOT truck carrying another CDOT truck.
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