Adoctor, a professor, an engineer, and a podcast-producer-cum-editor set out from Ohio, looking for adventure on the open road. The plan? To make it from Ohio to Denver in one day, and then spend the majority of two weeks hiking and driving around the national and state parks that are the pride of the western U.S. To say that this initial 20-hour drive was ambitious is an understatement, but it was all worth it when we reached the Continental Divide and drove through Loveland Pass in what we dubbed our Ameri-car, blaring John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High.”
This trip was the celebration of many accomplishments, as three of the group had just graduated from some form of school. Yours truly was simply along for the ride, a passenger princess, if you will, but one with a taste for travel and a willingness to cook full meals over a one-burner butane stove with (almost) nothing but a wooden spoon and a cast-iron pan.
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