Oh Mile High City, Why are you so cop friendly?

I finally got a good night sleep last night. Got a shower and into bed around midnight in Rapid City. Woke up this morning at like 8:30 or so and got some continental breakfast. I think Harsh and I are each going to gain about 5+ pounds on this ordeal. Sitting in a car all day and stopping to eat [fast] food every 5 hours or so isn't really conducive to anything but. Anyway...

Mt. Rushmore was kind of cool. A lot smaller in person. Apparently they originally intended to do a full scale, down-to-the-waist monument for George and the boys, but due to some faults in the granite below they could only do the faces. After that we (reluctantly) had to go back into Wyoming to go south (and a little west) to Denver. I hate Wyoming by now. There is nothing there... We even got a picture of a "Now Entering" sign on the highway where the town had a population of 1. haha (I will upload this later)

Denver looks pretty interesting so far, unfortunately we won't be able to spend a whole lot of time here. We need to leave around 1pm tomorrow in order to get in at a reasonable time to Kansas City where Harsh's girlfriend's parents are being nice enough to put us up for the night. We don't want to stumble in around 1am after an 8 hour drive to sleep and run so we figured we should take off a little earlier to get there at a good time.

Back to Denver - it was pretty hot here (95) but it was a hot day everywhere today. The first thing we see when we get there is a cop pulling onto the highway...and then within 500 yards, pulling over someone. A mile down the road a motorcycle cop is just finishing writing up a ticket to someone. The final straw is a massive 5 lane (in each direction) highway where the speed limit is a whopping 55. I also saw a cop driving down a pedestrian only street to check on bar-goers on the 16th street mall. No biggie I guess but it seems really cop-friendly here, which means I would definitely be paying extra taxes via tickets if I lived here, haha.

Well, I need to get to bed for now. I've uploaded some more pictures (from Yellowstone) on the ofoto gallery so check those out if you get a chance (link to the right). Below is one of them (this was taken right from the car - bear about 10 feet away)...


Update: This morning saw another guy pulled over and 2 more cop cars... :-) That means that of the 4 or so waking hours we've spent in Denver, we've seen 400% more cops here than the entire rest of the trip combined... :-)