[Up Yours Marxists]

I-70 is a horrible road to travel in the winter. Best to just go I-40 and avoid frequent closures.

Thank God nobody was hurt.

[grania]

I went out there a few times in the late 1990s, drove from Denver to just beyond Vail. It's breathtakingly beautiful but weird. Even back then, it was somewhat of a commuter road.

Just keeping it real....I didn't care for Vail. (1) I couldn't afford to do it up in luxury (2) It had pretty much become just another busy exit off an interstate.

Even back then, it was mind-boggling, the numbers of folks rich enough to have multi-million dollar mansions in those hills, vacant for most of the year. It was one of the first indications that the economy was out of balance.

[bert]

——Best to just go I-40 and avoid frequent closures——

Except I 40 through the NC mountains experiences the same problems and has been closed for months at a time