Night Driving

Driving late at night has so many advantages. For starters, I'm the only one out there for what seems like miles. There is the occasional semi and car, but nothing like traffic during the day. During the day, the stretch from Del Norte to Durango can take up to 3-4 hours, I did it last night in 2 hours doing 60 all the way, expect where posted less. The east side of the pass showed evidence of a wet spring with numerous slides, all of which closing the road until clean up was completed. Normally, I can get from Boulder to Grant in an hour and 10 minutes, yesterday it took 2 hours. Thus the reason for waiting at my stopping point until later on. Got a great 2 hour nap in. Once I woke up, I watched the traffic for a a few to see how thick it was at 6pm and it was back to normal, so I headed out. Pulled into home town at 2:30am, started out at 12:30pm, with 6 hours of various breaks along the way. Driving at night allows me to think, where driving at day forces me to avoid assholes on the road who have to be first at any cost. Driving at night isn't without its issues, one fool pulled out to pass the car in front of him with NO clue how close I was coming at him. I went from 68 to 35 in a short period of time to avoid dying, I wasn't too happy about it. Those driving big fancy vehicles really do think they own the road. So, those driving a road at night for the first time ever, if you aren't sure, Don't Do It! all-in-all, it was a nice drive once the everyone stopped for the evening. There are more chances to see different wild life at night, I saw 7 deer, one skunk, a what could have been a fox. Kept my eyes out for some elk, but didn't see any. One deer jumped across the road and went for what he thought was flat ground, when he fell about 5 feet into the ditch. It took him a second to get back on his feet, but he continued on. Not much else to report about my travels.