Seeing several Hollywood films during my student days, I often imagined myself as a sports car driver, sometimes a detective cop and at times an accomplice of James Bond 007!
That is an age when everyone would like to emulate what they see and admire outside. Among such things, I have fallen in love with those scenic roads in America. Driving along the ocean deep down in an open red colored car... hmm.. what a day dream!
There is a particular drive in the U.S. called 'The Million Dollar Drive'. It is a 75 mile stretch in the high ridges of Colorado.
Shermans Travels explains it more dramatically as follows:
"Breathtaking journey through the majestic mountain passes of western Colorado. Crossing part of the San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway, and following route U.S. 550 between the old mining towns of Silverton and Ouray, the route’s twists and turns wend high above the Red Mountain Pass – an 11,018-foot-high collapsed volcano whose lava flow was found to contain gold in 1860 – and past the deep Uncompahgre Gorge, into which flow several waterfalls."
Click on the link above to know why it was named as Million Dollar Drive.
Image taken from Google Images.
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