There and Back Again, or “That was a fortuitous fluke” (part 2: Colorado)

when last we left our intrepid road researchers, they were driving along route 50, heading west into Colorado.In case you ever wondered, the easternmost half of Colorado looks a lot like the westernmost half of Kansas. Except fewer feed lots, and the soil’s shading from taupe to reddish-brown.

The second half of the book takes place here, although it’s a vague “here” for reasons of Plot. I’ve been in Colorado before, so it wasn’t entirely new territory, but I was seeing it with Book Eyes, now....