We slob out in our room.

Trip Start Apr 18, 2007
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Trip End Oct 16, 2007


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Saturday, August 11, 2007

We spent until 2pm watching movies on TV - we started with some film with Mel Gibson as a maverick cop fighting some South African apartheid gang in NY (or somewhere). Too many explosions and car nonsense really. Then we watched Ewen McGregor and Scarlet Johanson in some futuristic film about clones being grown as a safety net for rich people - it was good until it started to get stupid.

Anyway we felt we needed to get out so we set off for Four Mile Park which really isn't worth visiting - just a few wooden buildings set amongst a new housing estate. We didn't stay long but set off on a series of interstates for Colorado Railway Museum near Golden about 10 miles west of Denver. It was an ok place with a few steam engines and a large diesel plus lots of carriages.

Afterwards we headed off into Golden which hosts the Coors brewery - which is a huge power-station-looking drab factory which dominates this small town. Coors obviously don't think much of the place either as it has no signage on any of the buildings.

We headed back in I-70 to the Wal-Mart next to the hotel where we got some lasagna for the evening meal which we enjoyed with a bottle of Mateus wine.

We love Denver but we had just had enough of 7days a week tourism - it can get quite exhausting.
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