I arrived in Silverthorne, CO at 6:55pm after crawling past the  Denver area in rush hour traffic. The slow pace saved a lot of energy because I still had 69 range left!  I did notice at the top of the grade that the range did drop to 60, but the downhill gave back 9 miles. My odometer was 22,030 so I officially passed the 7,000 mile mark for this roundtrip adventure. The temp was 67 degrees.

At one of the 8 superchargers was a red 85kw Tesla. Soon Mike walked up and explained that he was from further south in Colorado and just received the car 3 weeks ago. Next, Dawn and Andrew arrived in their blue P85 Tesla. Their car is named Nkyta, and it has no 85 numbering on it… another “anonymous” P85.  They were from Redwood City, CA and were on their way to Andrew’s high school reunion in Madison, WI.

They all departed after a quick charge and I remained behind trying to catch up on email, phone calls, and the neglected blog posts! I finally left at 8:45pm with 205 range. Thus, I was driving to Glenwood Springs in the dark.  But since my Eastbound journey was by day, the July blog post was descriptive of the area.

I arrived in Glenwood Springs at 10:45pm with a whopping 151 range remaining.  The odometer was 22,122 and temp at 68 degrees. I did notice that the temp was in the mid fifties while driving past the higher elevation at Vail. I charged to 204 and left at 11:20pm to get some rest. Frugal Tesla