Estes Park

Drove up to Estes Park today to attend a model train show...have to get some ideas for my new train.  Beautiful drive with the ice and snow in the river.  But oh such trauma!  When I left the show I turned left...which I thought was the way home...but, noooooo it wasn't.  As I drove up into the mountains and realized I was lost, started looking for a place to turn around.

Pulled over onto a turnout, then decided the road was too narrow to make a U-turn.  Okay...on to the next turnout...but when I tried to pull back onto the road my tires spun on the ice...5 minutes later, after backing up and spinning and backing up and spinning, finally shot out onto the highway.  Next turnout was a trailhead parking lot...or you could have called it an ice rink.  Slip and slid my way to a stop, turned around, inched out onto the highway so my back tires were on solid ground and hit the gas...yea, made it out.  I was so shaken I had to stop for a cream puff to calm my nerves for the drive home.