TO BOULDER, COLORADO

Left Park City today and drove Highway 40 most of the way to Boulder. It was absolutely beautiful. Seriously. I thought Montana had big mountains. These in Colorado are huge.

We got pulled over by a cop in Kremmling, Colorado for allegedly going 53 in a 35 zone through town. Luckly he was super nice and after a few minutes of talking he actually gave us better directions to Boulder (and let us go without a ticket)! Otherwise, we would have takens some huge mountain passes there in the dark which could have been very scary.

Anyhoo, here's some picture of the day! All along highway 40...







This one is just something you don't see in Seattle much! ;-)

PARK CITY, UTAH

Ski town home Sundance Film Festival. Construction all over. A few galleries, some historic small Victorian-ish houses but clearly everything was overhalled by 2002 Olympics. Clearly lots of tourism here. It has all the standard shops, more mid-range rather than trinkets or high-end. In my view, not very interesting. The area around here is very beautiful.




One thing I found interesting is that we went to the 2002 Olympic Park where they hosted the luge, bobsled and skeleton events. We were able to go to the start/top of runs - amazing views, yet totally frightening! We also some kids practicing freestyle arial jumps - who know they did that in the middle of summer? It was cool to see.

SUN VALLEY, IDAHO

Yesterday Ana and I met her friend Rebecca and her 2 year old son Tanner (who is so cute) at the Heathman Hotel in Portland for breakfast and got on the road at about 11am. It is beautiful around Hood River, Oregon and we quickly got off the 84 and drove around that town - it is famous for windsurfing, Full Sail Ale and has some Victorian houses and a little brick downtown. I'd been there before and I really like it. We then briefly got of 84 again at LaGrande, Oregon for gas and went on to Boise, Idaho. Boise is very bland (seems there was a sale on the color beige). There are some new brick buildings building downtown but hardly any pedestrians anywhere. It was all very nice but sorta seemed like a fake Hollywood set.

So we figured out that Sun Valley was only two hours away. We decided to go on. Long story short, we arrived at 11pm (after a 12 hour drive) and stayed in the historic Sun Valley Lodge. Ernest Hemingway lived in Ketchum, Idaho and wrote in the lodge. This morning, I wanted to just take a picture of the door of his room but it was open because they were cleaning it. So we got to go in and look around.