Lessons Learned After a Month in Colorado

1. Tarantulas migrate south in the end of October in southeastern Colorado. They travel across the road one at a time so that you have to be careful not to hit them.
2. Over 100,000 people can fit into Civic Center Park in the middle of Denver to see, now President-Elect, Obama speak.
3. It is not uncommon to see a salad bar on a covered wagon in a restaurant. (The bathroom's also say "Cowgirls" and "Cowboys".)
4. There are lots of subtle differences in Quonset huts. They can even be used as movie theatres.
5. Ranchers are willing to make roads with their pickup trucks. They also look at you funny when you put a seatbelt on.
6. Although the Coors Brewery has its home in Colorado, nobody really like Coors beer.
7. Directions are given in N, S, E, and W instead of left and right. People orientate themselves by the mountains in the west and rely on the grid patterned streets.
8. There are places in the world where you can spin around and around and not see anything.
9. Double laid stone is simply beautiful.
10. It is always an option to order your food "smothered" in green chile.
11. Western preservationists have a broader approach to what needs to be saved, including modern linear landscapes.