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LYC Trip Report:

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Mar 1 '21, 09:37

- United Club lounge at O'Hare : A- Excellent selection of prepackaged food. Most were vegetarian/gluten free for my wife which was a nice surprise. Free drinks, what's not to like. Daughter definitely enjoyed the posh.
- Surprise first class tickets: A She had no idea that was coming. Daughter/wife were in Row 1 which was a little annoying for the lack of space for their backpacks put otherwise excellent.
- Aborted landing in Denver. That was a new one. Tailwind, had to circle around again.
- Snow from Denver to Colorado Springs: F. Seriously almost died. Worst weather I have ever driven in in my life and had to do it in a smaller rental car.
- Hyatt COS: A+. Hot fresh cooked breakfast was a huge surprise (individually packaged still).
- UCCS: Insane views (facing pikes peak). Overall decent school. Nothing exceptional other than location.
- Crumbs cookies: OMG. So much sugar
- Garden of the Gods: A. Excellent drive through with the snow. Would have loved to have hiked but brrrr
- Dinner at Coati: A. Basically a big warehouse full of food truck vendors. Plenty of social distancing. excellent food. Games, etc. Great time with kid.

- Morning flight out of COS : Too early but had to do it. Very cute airport. Super small and easy
- COS lounge: Small but nice. Free snacks. Priority Pass for the win.
- COS to DFW: Uneventful. Landing surprised me but guess I wasn't paying attention.
- Lunch in Dallas (The Colony) at a little italian/pizza place. Excellent.
- UNT: HUGE school. worst tour guide. As expected. Fantastic music program, not sure if the rest vibes with kid. Hard to resist the low cost.
- Excellent equestrian team (COS had a good one too)

- Rested the last day. Hyatt DFW breakfast sucked
- Firemen on our floor around 9am banging on doors. Smoke. Nothing too exciting. No evac.
- Gameway lounge at DFW (priority pass again). Excellent. Free drink + 2 snacks totally worth the stop.
- Flight home Saturday uneventful

I wish we had clarity on the college search. Colorado is probably still at the bottom but if they give her a big academic offer like UNT did, it will be moving up the ranks. UNT has the music program but we need to see if she gets into that. Butler probably still in the lead overall but now $ is entering her mind. Trying to dissuade her that it should be a concern for her as we have that covered. This month should decide it though as the final information rolls in from each.

Responses:

Yeah snow in the mountains would not be fun to drive through. -- nm - spamlet Mar 1, 09:59 3
- "I'm from Chicago, it's just a little snow" - oblique Mar 1, 10:01 2
  - Yeah, it doesn't matter how used you are to snow on the roads, if they don't plow, all bets are off. - Mop Mar 1, 10:08
  - I drove up I70 into the mountains one time during a snow storm. It was the most terrifying thing ever -- nm - decline Mar 1, 10:07
Garden of the Gods is fantastic, bet it looked cool in the snow. -- nm - znufrii Mar 1, 09:53 30
- My favorite view was standing on top of Pikes Peak and seeing how small Garden of the Gods looked and then driving to GotG and seeing these huge rocks - Will Hunting Mar 1, 10:03 10
  - We did it in the opposite order, but yeah. I do not, otoh, recommend going up pikes peak less than 24 hours after being at sea level. -- nm - znufrii Mar 1, 10:13 8
    - Ouch. You took the tram up? I drove it in late March and was shocked by how much gas I used. And the terror of the edges of the corners. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 1, 10:24 7
      - Drove. - znufrii Mar 1, 10:28 6
        
        Also not the most terrifying drive I’ve done, that award goes to Million Dollar Highway near telluride. -- nm - znufrii Mar 1, 10:30 3
        
        We got the Tail of the Dragon here that’s about as fun. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 1, 10:31 2
        
        That does look fun. :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 1, 10:35 1
        
        No. Not when you got crotch rockets ripping past or Paul Walker wannabes (multiple ways) tailgating. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 1, 10:41
        
        Well, even at her age, she knew that wasn’t a fun drive. - Will Hunting Mar 1, 10:30 1
        
        The best part was having to pull over after leaving the parking lot and was convinced I was stuck in a gravel ditch. -- (edited) - znufrii Mar 1, 10:32
  - I wish we had been able to go up Pikes Peak. Weather wasn't cooperating nor our timing. Sadly we couldn't even really see it because of the clouds -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 10:05
- Sorry for the extra posts. Just one pic :) -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 09:57 1
  - Nice! -- nm - znufrii Mar 1, 09:59
- Pic -- (pic) - oblique Mar 1, 09:56 [Attachment] 1
  - I guess once you've seen one rock, you've seen them all. -- nm - Mop Mar 1, 09:58
- Pic -- (pic) - oblique Mar 1, 09:56 [Attachment]
- Pic -- (pic) - oblique Mar 1, 09:56 [Attachment]
- yeah, I've never seen it like that. Must have been spectacular -- nm - prayformojo Mar 1, 09:54 12
  - weird. bery? :) -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 10:00 7
    - I think something went wrong. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 10:06 6
      - woopsie -- nm - decline Mar 1, 10:08
      - So odd that both times it did 3. Was using Edge (chromium) posting from my OneDrive (pic was synced locally) in case it helps diagnose later. -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 10:07 4
        
        on a fixed connection or mobile? VPN? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 10:15 3
        
        fixed. I'm at work on our corporate LAN on my desktop. -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 10:16 1
        
        Maybe the corporate firewall is fiddling with the connection and causing it to open multiple connections -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 10:24
        
        FWIW I think the reason it didn't succeed at duplicate protection is because the autogenerated upload name is different each time -- nm - Beryllium Mar 1, 10:15
  - Second pic -- (pic) - oblique Mar 1, 10:00 [Attachment]
  - Second pic -- (pic) - oblique Mar 1, 09:59 [Attachment]
  - Second pic -- (pic) - oblique Mar 1, 09:59 [Attachment] 1
    - you must *really* want people to see these pictures -- nm - prayformojo Mar 1, 10:12
very cool. -- nm - Diva Mar 1, 09:50
That's exciting. I think this is your 2nd time through the process but it might be a lot different than your son's experience. It has been with us. -- nm - zunk xometimes Mar 1, 09:49 1
- Very different. Night and day. We're enjoying it at times and other times it is frustrating but we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 10:08
Oh. Forgot to mention: Chicago did a nice job of limiting people on busses for social distancing. Dallas, not so much. Packed in tight. -- nm - oblique Mar 1, 09:45 3
- least shocking news ever. I'm seeing less mask usage as well -- nm - Pippy Mar 1, 09:57 1
  - Generally speaking, that was OK. I credit the federal executive order. Still some people outside not wearing them but at least around the airport it - oblique Mar 1, 09:58
- DFW is always tight -- nm - budice Mar 1, 09:46
Yay!!! -- nm - Pippy Mar 1, 09:44
VNT (Very Nice Tripping) -- nm - budice Mar 1, 09:40

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