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Here are some things I learned on vacation:

• It seems weird that if I drive between seven hundred and nine hundred miles in a day I do not get sleepy, but I get sleepy sometimes driving for less than an hour.
• It’s fun to drive through the mountains. The road is constantly curving and rising and falling, going through tunnels and over bridges.
• Interstate 70 from the west of Colorado to Interstate 15 in Utah is seriously empty. Empty as in the traffic wouldn’t make for a busy two-lane highway.
• It’s nice to go somewhere warm in the Winter. I was able to spend a couple of afternoons reading outside in the sun, which I did on my balcony on warm Summer evenings (and will again).
• It is Not Cool to find that one’s car is not where it is supposed to be.
• Refrain from parking in unmarked fire lanes that you do not know are there. Your car will be towed anyway.
• Make sure your motor vehicle registration card is in your motor vehicle before taking your motor vehicle one thousand seven hundred miles away from the state in which it is registered.
• It’s less fun to drive through the mountains at night in a snow storm (not a real storm, but in the dark with concrete barriers on either side of the road and steep hills and sudden curves, even moderate snowfall seems heavy).
• A good vacation makes it feel nice to get home.