Not a surprise, still a lot of things backwards here.
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Oh yea is there still that clown college heading north out of Tucson? Place always looked like a good place to get stabbed which is saying something for Tucson.
No, I don’t think it’s that far to the furthest parts of Colorado, but it is about that far to the first one you can reach in Texas on the I-10 if you were going the other way.