From my Adventure Journal....
26 June 2006 2:57am
Lying here on my back, looking up at the stars... The cold mountain air sends chills through my body. Involuntarily I shudder. Lying in the back of my truck, wrapped in a small light blanket, fighting off the cold mountain air is not where I had planned to be at three in the morning. What seems like only hours ago I was in Denver, looking for a hotel to spend the night. Now lying here in the cold, in the bed of my toyota truck, beside a lonesome stretch of dirt road I wonder to myself... Why didn't I fuel up before leaving Denver??? According to the map and my GPS unit I am not too far off highway 72 somewhere between Denver and Boulder in a place called Coal Creek Canyon. 7,267 ft into the Rocky Mountains. N39-53'58.7" W105-20'30.6". My hands are getting too cold to write...When the sun comes up I will go for fuel. For now, I am stuck here, beside the road to the middle of nowhere, trying not to freeze...