Fort Collins House Hunt
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Back in February I visited Colorado to decide upon a city to relocate to. Photos here. The purpose of this trip, knowing that Fort Collins is the selected city, is to find a place to move into.
Clouds I-70 about an hour east of Denver |
| Panorama Click for a larger size |
| Just sitting in a residential driveway as I was riding through a neighborhood en-route to view rental house... An old snow cat. |
| Panorama Click for a larger size Looking east over Fort Collins CO from CR23 / Centennial Drive. |
| Stove Prarie Road just south of the Rist Canyon Road intersection (about 10 miles west of Fort Collins) |
| Heading home - unusual, "swept" clouds. |
| For a section of the trip home (Sutherland
NE to Gibbon NE) I took Route 30 / the old "Lincoln Highway"
two-lane instead of the Interstate (I-80). Additional Historic Lincoln Highway information can be found at the road's association The UP's busy triple-track line runs along with the roadway. Here two Ferromex locomotives are being shuttled from their U.S. manufacturing / repair shop to somewhere in Mexico. Wiki on Ferromex |
| An original Lincoln Highway bridge remains. |
| Painted in 2005 by the Overton Boy Scouts Troop |
| Lincoln Highway From somewhere in Nebraska... |
| ...to Dixon Illinois |
| UP tracks - the same that I followed in Nebraska - between Franklin Grove IL and Ashton IL. Franklin Grove was the just prior home of the Lincoln Highway Association's headquarters and will now be maintained and used for tourist information.. |
| Looking east towards Ashton. The gravel road is more original Lincoln Highway. |
| Heading east I caught sight of an approaching train in my mirror |
| Video Eastbound Train eastbound-train.wmv WMV, 12.1 MB, 1 min 3 sec That's it. Two trips to Colorado - one to pick a city and one to pick an address. Now for the big job of packing, loading, driving, unloading, unpacking. |
