We drove to Pitkin, CO, where Ethan has purchased some land. It’s a tiny town full of wood cabins in a valley surrounded by mountains. We toured their property and another they are thinking of buying to use to stay in while they build their house on the other. We toured other people’s houses for them to get building ideas. Then we came into town for lunch (wood-fired pizza) and then drove through the mountains and passes and just enjoyed the view. It is past peak season right now, but some of the Aspens were still gorgeous. The sun, the clouds, there is no pollution or humidity out here and the colors were amazing. I don’t have wifi here so I can’t upload my pictures, but I got some amazing ones.
I climbed up behind the house they may buy just to live in while they build they other, up a steep train, not far at all, like 20 yards, maybe more. My heart rate went from 80 (which is still high for me) up to 117. I was at 9,300’ according to my phone. I did a blood oxygen level test and it was showing at 92, which is normal for this watch even at a normal altitude, so apparently my O2 wasn’t too bad. I don’t really feel the altitude too much, unless I exert myself. Then it becomes obvious quickly. Heart starts racing and I feel myself starting to breathe hard. The highest we got was about 12,000’ on top of one of the peaks. Such beautiful, beautiful countryside. It leaves me feeling nostalgic. I do wish I could afford to build a place on a creek in the woods against a mountain resort and wake up to that view whenever I wanted. There’s not much internet out here though, so that’s a drawback. It’s a good thing it has good views to offset that. ;)
As we were driving down one of the roads, a truck came by from the opposite direction with a sign that said “SLOW: Cows” Behind him, in the road, they were moving a herd of cows. We stopped and let them go past us, for a long time, and at the end came two cowboys on horses keeping the stragglers in line and going past us. Don’t see that in Indiana every day. Any day. ;). I got some photos, and thought that was pretty cool.
At one point on the mountain, the sun was shining, but it started snowing on us. Gloppy, sloppy, heavy balls of snow/sleet. We drove through it, in the sunshine, and saw a rainbow by the mountain off to our right. Just…so much beauty.
Tomorrow we’re going to leave sometime in the morning, and with the tailwind we’ll only have to make one fuel stop, in Manhattan, Kansas, and then we should be back to Frankfort around 5 pm if all goes well. Then I can get them unloaded and get back to Kokomo before 6 pm so I can top off the plane before they close, so that I can be back up at 5 am to leave on a MBros flight to Iowa the next morning. In the rain. :p
It was a neat day. I’m glad I was able to come, and it is even paid. Can’t beat that.
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