I had been planning on taking a long weekend with the wife over Easter to head out to Colorado for some prime-time spring shredding. Bought some airfare to get out there (but didn’t buy the return flight yet) and got approved for the time off work. But… There’s always a “but”.
Plans change. The airfare was reasonable (and refundable via Southwest) but the logistics were just killing me. Arriving on Thursday morning and flying home either late Sunday or early Monday, and trying to squeeze in some non-shredding activities like a tour of the Coors Brewery, a visit to Red Rocks and maybe (maybe) some biking or a horeseback ride. I just couldn’t fit it all in. Temps are still ow and trails snowy enough that most of the bike trails aren’t open. There are a few in the Roaring Fork Valley (West of Vail) that open Easter weekend, but the moderately priced horse riding is near RMNP, or about 3+ hours in the opposite direction. I don’t want to be driving back and forth on I-70 all day every day, and I don’t want to be staying in a different hotel every night, either.
I can bang out a long weekend shredding on the cheap. But we can’t :) do that.
Things would be easier if she was a snow-junkie like me, hell, we could easily fly out Thursday, get a cheap place in Winter Park, ride Friday and Saturday and come home Sunday afternoon. Gets complicated when you start trying to cram too many activities in to too short a timeframe. And adding days means adding nights at another hotel, and another day with the rental car, another night boarding the dog, and activities all cost money.
It all adds up, and the timing just wasn’t going to work — at least not in a manner that would keep both of us happy.
Thanks to Southwest’s generous cancellation policy, I can cancel the reservations any time up to the day before the flight and I’ll get a credit to use on a future flight. No change fees, no cancellation fees, so except for a nice weekend in the Rockies, nothing lost :(
