East Coast of the West Coast

     Colfax Avenue is part of the old Highway 40, which once was the old Lincoln Highway, the first coast-to-coast highway across the U.S.A. I refer to Denver as the "East Coast of the West Coast", because when you are driving west from the east coast, and you first catch sight of Denver at the edge of the massive Rocky Mountain range, is when you first get the feeling that California is just on the other side, and once you cross the mountains it's all downhill from there.