We decided to drive through the Rockies! Awesome! Everybody loves the Rockies! Look! How pretty! But you know what they don't tell you? If you drive through the Rockies, it will take you EIGHT HOURS TO DRIVE TO DURANGO! The wiser move is to skip the purple mountain majesty and drive south through Denver, using only major interstates the whole way. We do not, I regret, have a picture of Michael holding onto his sanity at 2:30 a.m. as we drove through the San Juan mountains at 15 miles an hour. Or of the 20 or so deer we saw on the way. Maybe it's better that way.