When we tried to leave the cities, or colorado period, here's what we ran into. It took us a couple of hours to get from denver to Pueblo(which isn't very far), when we ran into road blocks in all directions. So at 3 in the afternoon on the 30th we were forced to rent a hotel in this dead town. The next day we set off in the morning, but ran into the same road blocks that we had been told would be clear. I talked Josh into taking business 50, which looked kinda small and snowy(sorry mom), and we made it back onto the main hwy 50 within 20 or so minutes. Unfortunately, the next road block was only 63 miles past Pueblo, and we were forced to get a hotel after only 2 or so hours of snow driving. In the town, La Junta, everything was closed exept Wal-Mart, and so we settled for some t.v. diners, fruit, and a six pack of killian irish red(it's all they had besides bud flavors) for a new years celebration in the middle of nowhere in a hotel room. Nothing like the Animal Planet Channel for 7 hours!

This is a picture of one of the stuck cars at the hotel we stayed at in Idaho Springs.
The road conditions.

Our car. Luckily with the help of some friendly mexicans, we got this beast out and on the road in no time.