I thought the rockies would be a little rockier than this....

#27 Plan a spontaneous trip. I know what you're thinking. To plan a trip doesn't sound so spontaneous. But planning a road trip, that involves more than one tank of gas needs some arrangements. Last week my friend from back home Eric Newby, (you might know him as Nubbs) asked if I'd like to go snowboarding. Our options were as follows: Tahoe, mam, big bear, and Colorado. Nubbs said he had some contacts at Keystone we could stay with so, with lodging being free. We packed our gear and headed for the great state of Colorado (not as great as Idaho, but high ranking on my list.) We were pretty hungry leaving PC so we stopped for some grub at the Dairy Keen in Heber City (not to be confused with Dairy Queen.) *Normally this wouldn't be important but it will come into play later. We arrived in Colorado at about 12:30 am. Eric called his friend, who come to find out they only knew each other from two seasons ago on an encounter at Brighton and exchanged phone numbers. So it was super generous of him to let two strangers stay at his condo. Which was covered in Bob Marley posters and drug paraphernalia. Anyway, we took the floor and the couch and dreamed of Keystone & Breckenridge's park. The next morning I woke up feeling not so well, and when I say not so well I mean that I threw up five times before we hit the mountain. We arrived at Keystone to discover that the price for a day ticket is $98. I'll admit not shocking but I didn't feel like getting raped at the ticket window (figuratively.) Please don't think less of me, but I take full advantage of the fact that I look 13 without makeup, so needless to say I bought a child's pass. Which was a financially smart decision since I wasn't feeling well. And after spending most of the day next to my porcelain friend I knew I was victim of Dairy Keen's revenge. We were going to travel to Denver the next day but decided that before we could blow anymore money on extremely expensive ski tickets we should high tail it home where I could throw up in the convenience of my own home. It was an adventure needless to say, and Eric is probably one of the only people that I can ride in the car with and not want to stab after four hours. It definitely won't be my last spontaneous trip...Few things I learned: Just because you love ranch doesn't mean you should get the ranch burger at Dairy Queen...I mean Keen, Bob Marley's 26 kids are making a killing off of posters alone, on the stretch of highway between Roosevelt and Dinosaur CO there are approximately 12.4 dinosaur statues, the state of Colorado's welcome sign is not easy to climb on (quite sharp actually), the bathroom in Gaylan's condo has 16 tiles, and Keystone is Ri-dic-ulous. Will be planning another spontaneous trip there in the future.