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Appreciation of South Platte River Drive - Denver, Colorado

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This piece was put together while I was on vacation. Ten days to live in an area outside our norm. With that in mind, I wanted to spend some of that time working on a different kind of story. This isn't about a particular address or structure that I once frequented. I'm not going to write about baseball cards or abandoned Burger Kings , for the moment. Instead, I'm writing about a body of water and the road next to it, that served as a backdrop for a good part of my daily life for quite a few years of it.  Yeah, I don't think I'll ever stop feeling homesick over my time living in Colorado. Revisiting seemingly insignificant pieces from time to time, scratches that itch when it develops. Good thing I took all those pictures... Given my location of employment for a majority of those Colorado years, I drove a segment of the South Platte River, nearly every day. This was my chosen route because of the lesser amount of traffic compared to the busier paths to work. Since...