A recent and very rare vacation found Sue and I wandering Western Colorado recently. When someone, years ago decided to draw a line smack dab through the middle of a Colorado map, they set many things into motion, some notable, some not so much. Most notable and not contributable to any single entity, if you don’t count God, is the fact water runs in opposite directions in each half.

This grand difference, oddly, had absolutely no effect on our trip which utilized interstates and no rivers. Other small oddities were notable and surprising. Much of the area we traveled was noted for i...