trips to remember...

in August,and September 1998,i was in Colorado,and then in Nebraska... mid-August,i was in Boulder,trying to get into a shelter,and they would not let me into it for 24 hours,which meant i was stuck in Boulder,and rather pissed,but the shelter was near a state highway,so i walked and kept walking,got picked up a few miles down the highway... as the sun went down the lady handed me some money,and left me on the side of highway,pointing to a nearby hotel... i checked the prices and it was sky high,so i kept walking,got another ride into Estes Park,stopped by the police station to see if they had a shelter,not asking for anything else... they asked me if i had some money... i did,so they offered me a hotel room and i accepted,and then had a great mexican meal... the next morning,i left town by the main highway,stopped by a great donut shop,and then walked into the Rocky Mountain National Park... at the vista point,i saw some great views,and then started walking down the main road through the park,through some switchbacks,and stopped to gather my breath,and it started snowing lightly,as i was standing next to the main road,then walked over to the main visitor's center(12,000+ feet)... i got a lift out to Granby,another hotel room,and then found a great German restaurant... the next morning,i actually walked to Steamboat Springs,and it was a very pleasant walk through some spectacular scenery,and through a ghost town,it looked like... well i ended up in Craig after walking some hundred miles... the next month,i got stuck at a rest stop,on the Wyoming/Nebraska border,on I-80 for four days,when i realized that i was not going to get a ride,until i was dead(laughing),so i saw the sign for US 30,heading into Nebraska,so i started walking down the two lane highway through Sidney,Kimble,Gothenberg,North Platte,and all the way to Kearney,following US 30(Lincoln Highway)... it took me about 11 days,and i covered some hundred plus miles... i got a few rides down US 30,but i saw some beautiful scenery,including the North Platte River outside North Platte,and a flock of black birds diving to a pond's surface over and over,going in an oval,outside Kearney... during the month of September,i also was a trucker for four days,shortly before that hundred plus mile adventure... i will always remember those walks and that awesome adventure...