We had arbitrarily decided to route ourselves through Denver on our way to Lansing simply because Ken hadn’t been there before. I hadn’t either, but that fact didn’t weigh on me.
While researching things that were at least somewhat unique to Denver, I had settled on the Denver Mint and the Molly Brown House. Unfortunately, the Denver Mint 1) required reservations and were booked to mid-July and 2) wasn’t open on the weekends. So that just left the Molly Brown House. But that was OK since Ken picked the Colorado Railroad Museum. That gave us two short-ish things to do before hitting the road for the putting-the-miles-behind-us push to Lansing.
Since the Molly Brown House didn’t open until noon on Sundays, we went the to Railroad Museum first. I’ll confess, I’m not terrifically interested in large motorized objects nor in model trains, but, if you are, this is a great place to go. I only wish they had better signage. Lots of info on the web site, however.
After wandering around for a while, we decided we’d had enough and went on to the Molly Brown House. The first tour started at noon and we wanted to get there for it. Margaret “Molly” Brown was a Titanic survivor and the musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” is loosely based on her life. The house was nice but the real prize was the docent we had. She was obviously a born story teller and it was a real pleasure to listen to her. Photos weren’t allowed inside the house but here is a composite showing the front.
After the tour, we were going to have lunch and hit the road. We had reservations at the EconoLodge in Lincoln NE that night and it was nearly 500 miles away. After a brief consultation we decided to just hit the road and grab a bite at some fast food place east of Denver. So we did, getting there about 10:30 local time that night. The following day was 733 miles to my house in Lansing MI.
And thus ended our journey east.
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