September 22

What a day! Some people sky dive. Some people bungy jump. Some people vote for the NDP.  We drive the Million Dollar Highway between Durango and Telluride. If you have done this drive before then hats off. We are going make a club. We're all getting matching tattoos. Jack and Jill went up the most treacherous fucking hill that the Lord Jesus ever made and Jill screamed and bitched while Jack told her to shut the fuck up - isn't that how the poem goes? Pass altitude was 11,000 feet. I'm sorry but suddenly my life revolves around altitude. 

It was the biggest extremes of my life. The most beautiful drive of my life and yet the closest I've come to death. No guard rails and at least a 300 foot drop to our deaths. At supper the boys did a reenactment of the possible ways we could have died using mustard, ketchup and mayonnaise bottles. I don't think I'll ever use ketchup again. You know it's bad when the boys were driving the speed limit (btw....Ryan passed 10 vehicles doing 110 mph yesterday) and they are holding the steering wheel at 10 and 2. I honestly feel like I cheated death. Wine tastes better and the air smells sweeter.

In the spirit of the Old West we are going to go by new names. Some of the "Working Girls" names in Cripple Creek back in the day were: Dirty Neck Nell, Dizzy Daisy, Bilious Bessie, Slippery Sadie, Greasy Gertie and Victor Pig. So keep your expectations low. Jen is Jalopy Jen. Kim is Krusty Cagin' Kim and I am Sluicy Stacy. I think we would have been popular. Except we fight a lot. And we would be playing poker instead of entertaining. And we get a lot of headaches. So we'd be sub-par working girls. We would be the madams. Rich. 

The boys are gun fighters. Darren is Derringer. Brian is Two Knuckles Kid. And Ryan - he is an Indian - so he is Chief Many Tongues. Because he talks in 652 different accents. They are really bad gun fighters. They are also bad drinkers and bad poker players. Day 9 done, +/- 10,000 feet, 10 bottles of red, 3 bottles of carolinas, 2 bottles of Kahula, 1 bottle of Grey Goose and 9 cases of beer, 9 bottles of Prosecco, $300 US lost in poker games, 2 car washes and 34,873 pieces of mouse poop. 

On to Day 10.....