The clouds continued to spit rain as my two companions and I made our way from East Colfax to West Colfax, hopping over I-25, the vast expanse of railyards, coal-trains, and salvage lots in the process.

Lake Steam Baths - featuring Ladies' Day and Mens' Day! The Rose Lady! ...she's got the whole block! Get your bail bond... ...a shave and a haircut... ...a manicure... ...and funeral arrangements! All at the Rose Lady! the rainbow continues to lead us to food. Eddie Bohn Motel Eddie Bohn Motel Frank's Bar-B-Que The Aristocrat! *snap* Motel.  Bar.  What more do you need? it can be hard to focus when taking pictures out the window of a moving vehicle... and, in case any of you wondered, Casa Bonita is real. enough, rainbow! again with the food! Colfax Central

A small aside: as the evening wore on - it was about 8:15 or 8:30 by this point in our journey (we began our trek at 6:15pm), the clouds got more and more interesting as the sunset began to illuminate them.

Due to this, the following conversation was had in the car:

Amity: those sure are some crazy clouds!

me: yeah, pretty insane!

Sara: yep. The Insane Cloud Posse.

Amity & me: *blink* followed by crazy laughter

Amity: Sara, you win, for all time: you win!)

The Insane Cloud Posse at the Trail's End Davies' Chuck Wagon Diner - and the rainbow was nowhere to be found... The Dive Bar - if we had given into temptation and stopped at The Dive Bar, we would never have finished our journey. Farewell, Dive Bar! We hardly knew you! fairgrounds the end of the line...

It was an epic drive, beginning in the country on a dirt road, with stop signs for no one, and ending in the country with a stop sign for no one. At the end, at the junction where Colfax Avenue turns from city street into Highway 40, we saw one lone firework, exploding in front of us. Only one.