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Sunday, January 11 was a loooong drive, 12 hours including stops from Windsor to Lubbock, Texas, for what the Google Maps GPS called 9 hours driving time. Not to suggest it was boring. First we passed smoothly through Denver on 4, 6, 8, then up to 12 lanes of highway with interchanges of several levels. Tom considers these types of drives like exciting exhibition rides. South of Denver we hugged the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains for hours driving South on beautiful 4 lane Interstate 25/87. Rose said we had the "Rocky Mountain High" (John Denver). The mountains don't seem to be introduced by foothills. They seem to rise up out of the plains. Then, just after crossing into New Mexico, 87 split off from 25 and we headed Southeast toward Amarillo, Texas. After the massive mountain scenery, we drove on massive plains, populated by massive ranches covering grass, sage, cactus covered gently rolling plains with the occasional butte or just shale rock outcrops. After many miles of ranch-land the car was filled with a foul stench which we soon learned was coming from massive cattle feedlots. Despite the fact that the temperature was +10-12 there was still the occasional snow bank on the ground.
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