Under the Wire

You can take the boy out of the country but ... you can’t teach him how to drive in the big city.

It seemed like a simple task. All I had to do was attend a meeting in lower downtown Denver. LoDo, they call the area. Before this project was over, I’d re-named it.

Over the phone the directions seemed easy enough. I-25 south to Speer, Speer to 15th, left on 15th, etc, etc. It couldn’t be any harder than directions in our town. You know, left at the grain elevator, go down the street to where the pavement ends and follow the creek. Nope, nothing different except perhaps for the fact we would be m...