This week is weird, in that I am scheduled to work both Saturday and Sunday. Originally my boss had me working all seven days, but I told him that just because I am an intern it is not OK to make me work every day of the week.
So he gave me Wednesday off.
Wednesday, really? I didn't know what to do. I had a couple of errands that I had been putting off till today, but I knew there was not enough to take up the whole day. I needed to return something at the mall in the north of the city, a place that I usually take I-25 to get to. As I was driving, I thought about how I-25 goes all the way to Denver... and so I went. There was a bookstore at the mall, where I bought a Frommer's guide with a nice map, and I had Tom-Tom. There are times when I am extremely grateful for the GPS device, and other times... I want to throw it out the window. In Denver, with tall buildings all around, it constantly lost signal, most of the time at exactly the moment I was nearing an intersection where I was supposed to turn. It was infuriating.
Despite Tom-Tom's best efforts to strand me in downtown Denver, I made it, and really enjoyed the city.
Denver is a pretty big city - Wikipedia says about 500,000 in the city and 2 million in the metro area. I walked around downtown a bit, where there are quite a few tall buildings, and people walking around the streets, but for all that it really didn't feel huge. It felt, well, Western, with big wide streets and the laid-back feeling I imagine when I think of the American West.
I only spent a few hours there, because parking was stupidly expensive: $2 for every 15 minutes. Next time I go, Dave says I should take the tram in to the city.
Denver reminded me of a European city a little: 16th Street is mostly for pedestrians, with shops and restaurants, and a tram running through the city and into the surrounding suburbs, I guess. So that was cool.
I'm gonna post photos in a new post. This one is too long.
Cheers!
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