Christmas

It has been a busy last few weeks, with yard decorations, yard trains, Thanksgiving, the Parade of Lights yard party Friday night, and the office Christmas Party, (excuse me, Holiday Party since we hired the Jewish guy), last night (dessert and house/motorhome tours at our house after). Once every three years my audit practice gets audited to make sure I’m doing it right. The audit of our auditing was was last week.
Right up through yesterday, we’ve been pretty busy. Today we stopped and relaxed for the first time in a long time. Watched some football. Thought about the January trip. Put the kayak rack back up on top of the car in preparation.

Ready for another week of work. Time to finish the year and put the finishing touches on our projections for next year before we head off to the Texas coast. We should be ready to leave about January first.



Traffic

We got to drive on a new road. They’re building that loop road around Denver. Interstate 470. Only a quarter of it is actually interstate. Each part that is funded without federal dollars gets a different kind of name. We have C-470. The E-470 toll road. The Northwest Parkway toll road. That’s our part. The Northwest Parkway. Before this, three quarters of the loop have been completed. I-70 and I-25 cross in the middle of Denver. From I-70 on the west side, you can loop around to the south to I-25, then take the toll road up the east side to I-70, then continue on past the new airport to join I-25 well north of Denver. It’s 70 mph all the way. This newest section links the I-25 part with the Denver Boulder Turnpike. We pick it up about three miles from our house. It covers about one-third of the missing quarter. All that remains is to finish off the section between the turnpike and I-70 west of Denver.
It’s a toll road. We have a transponder, so we can drive on it any time it’s convenient, and never have to stop to pay a toll, though. It will just charge automatically to our credit card. That will be particularly handy anytime we want to leave the area in the motorhome during heavy traffic hours. For a few dollars, we can drive all the way around Denver with essentially no traffic. I think I like that it’s a toll road.