What a difference a day makes

From this:

To this:

With most holidays I always have a moment of dislocation and realisation that you can be somewhere entirely different from your daily life in very little time at all. This was no different. After arriving and picking up my car in a slightly frazzled state, I headed into Denver to get the first scores on the board. The iPod was hooked up, playing some Zero 7 then the heavens opened and I got treated to a spectacular rain storm whilst driving through downtown Denver. Something spooky about the rain sloshed neon and jet lag certainly conspired to underline; you are somewhere else.

Day two arrived brilliantly sunny and I headed off for Pikes Peak to drive in the footsteps of some amazingly ballsy drivers at a far more sedate pace.

Check out my Pikes Peak slide show on Flickr