Roadtrip Reprieve: Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead
Posted by: pcloeb on: 12/07/2009
The Beets Won Trivia June 3, 2009 at McCabe's Tavern
We won with a come from behind victory and only by two points. The important thing, however, being the winning of trivia. It’s a small victory but one which feels good. A nice opportunity to share good drinks, good laughs, and good stories with friends all in the service of drunken and hilarious lines of questions. I only wish we had been able to win shitty Inn Complete trivia nights. Imogene Coca came soooo close.
Of course, this isn’t the most important event but it marks the totality of the experience of the week being home. Even though not a whole lot happened.
Family being the most important thing on this trip, I made a big effort to spend time with my parents and see my sister and my nephews and niece. A week doesn’t really afford you a great deal of time and certainly life seems to speed forward in ways you never quite expect.
I have to admit having the simplest of joys waiting for me at home for dinner was nice and having Black Jack climb up in my lap upon sitting down made me believe I was lost in time back before I had even left Syracuse; a living memory preserved in a time capsule.
I unloaded my vehicle and settled in to survey the stuff and start breaking down the things I’m taking onwards to the next journey and the things which I am leaving behind.
I took the opportunity to see a lot of my family and to spend some time with my parents as I made my preparations to move out to Los Angeles. I took them to see some movies – “Terminator: Salvation” and “The Brothers Bloom” as well as having a nice meal out with them. Seeing my niece, Kaida, grow up a little bit as she stands up and crawls around made me smile or the way Kain wants me to show him how to beat some video game or little Khan wanting to ride on my shoulders, giggling and laughing the whole way.
It was also nice to catch up with friends who I had not seen in awhile. I took great joy in seeing them overcome life’s challenges and difficulties with great stride. Some of them had done great things in the past year from new additions to their family to making renewed plans for the future. While it had only been a couple of months since I had seen a number of my friends, it was a good chance to see an old friend whom I had not spoken to in almost two years.
Still, there’s never enough time and the week ran up quickly. Before I knew it, I was loading the car up again. Sunglasses on, I put Denver and its memory behind the rearview mirror.
It was time for the next adventure.
The great unknown lay beyond me out west, just beyond the rocky mountains.
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