The Colorado National Monument is a piece of work. You get to it by leaving Grand Junction CO and skipping down the road to Fruita CO, then turning left. A few miles further on and you begin to climb on the switchback-y road for a gain in altitude of a couple of thousand feet and you are there. And where is “there?”
Well, here.
If the pix make it look slightly spectacular, that’s because it is. Even the driving on the single road through the park is awesome for me, in this meaning of the word: fear-inspiring. You all know that I have acrophobia, and that I deplore the Colorado habit of creating two-lane roads with a mountain on one side and a terrible cliff on the other … and then providing nothing like a guard rail or anything to keep you from driving off the skinny road into eternity should your hand slip just a bit on the steering wheel, or your foot twitch on the accelerator pedal. And this road through the monument is full of those opportunities for fright for those who share my affliction.
The trouble is, in Colorado such places are two things at once: unavoidable and scenically amazing. As they are here at the CNM. So I gather what shreds of courage that I still possess and turn the driving over to Robin while I sweatily grip the handles on the car door and think of the tens of thousands of people who must have made this same journey without any plummeting involved at all.
At any rate, Saturday we rendezvoused with the Hurley family at the Monument, where they were camping for a couple of nights. We broke bread with them, hiked a couple of short hikes with them, and jabbered together about everything and nothing in particular, the way friends do.
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For me, Dr. Fauci is still someone to look to for honest and valid advice in this time of rampant obfuscation. Why do I say “still?” Well, here he is throwing out the first ball of the major league baseball season.
Just goes to show that there are few of us who are good at everything. By all reports he is planning to keep his day job.
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Little Home In The Valley 
I’ve been to the monument twice. The first time I camped there for a few days. What an amazing place.
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Great! And thanks for the friendly laugh *with* Dr. Fauci! He handled it well.
C/J
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 6:08 AM Little Home In The Valley wrote:
> jono55 posted: ” The Colorado National Monument is a piece of work. You > get to it by leaving Grand Junction CO and skipping down the road to Fruita > CO, then turning left. A few miles further on and you begin to climb on the > switchback-y road for a gain in altitude of ” >
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