This summer, we finally took a trip to the Rockies. I had been talking about doing this for years; my family lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and the idea was to meet halfway and have a joint vacation, the bonus being the shortened trip, the kids (my sis has three, I have two) wrecking someone else’s place instead of our own, and maid service and restaurants to clean everything up and keep everyone refueled. We managed two out of three, landing a very nice, very inexpensive condo just outside of Dillon, Colorado. My wife and I debated: fly? Drive? If we drive, which car? We drove the Audi A4 (small, but it fit all of our luggage, the kids were actually pretty comfortable, and best of all the car kept up an average speed of 90 mph and cornered like it was on rails in the twisty mountain sections of I-15 and I-70; road trips are much more when taken in cars built to perform on the Autobahn), and the drive from San Diego took us two days.

The I-70 through the Rockies: a driver's-eye view.

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