Day 01
Thu, Apr 23
Austin → Amarillo.
Pick up the trailer at 11, load the house into it, and roll north on I-35 → US-287 by 3 PM CDT. Seven hours to SW Amarillo, hotel with room for the rig, and an early night before the tee time.
Filed from Austin, TX · Thu, Apr 23, 2026
From Austin
to the high
plains of Denver
An advance run before the real move — one truck, a small trailer of non-essentials, a Friday tee time in Amarillo, and a week in the foothills looking for a home.
§ 02 · The Route
Nine hundred miles, give or take.
Fig. 1 — Austin, TX → Denver, COApprox. scale 1:12,000,000
§ 03 · Waypoints
The places we will, or may, stop.
- 01
Austin
Austin, TX
OriginU-Haul trailer pickup at 11 AM on Ben White, loaded at the house, wheels up around 3 PM CDT on the Thursday. - 02
Amarillo
Amarillo, TX
Overnight + tee timeThursday night in the I-40 / Soncy hotel cluster. First-group-out 7 AM tee at Ross Rogers WildHorse on Friday, then back on the road across the Panhandle. - 03
Denver
Lakewood, CO
Home base, ~a weekCrashing at Thatcher's place in Lakewood — rough plan is a week or so, nothing locked. Apartment tours around Wheat Ridge, Applewood, and Clear Creek Crossing, a round at Fossil Trace in Golden, and a storage drop in the west-Denver corridor. - 04
Rawls at Texas Tech
Lubbock, TX
Return leg, maybeTom Doak course on the Texas Tech campus, just off I-27. A potential detour on the empty-truck way home, calendar permitting.
§ 04 · Itinerary
The shape of the days.
Day 02
Fri, Apr 24
The morning round, then the push to Denver.
7 AM tee at Ross Rogers WildHorse, walking off the 18th around 11. North across the Panhandle — Dalhart, Raton Pass at 7,834 ft, then I-25. Into Lakewood around 6 PM MDT, done with the haul.
Days 03 →
From Sat 04/25 — length TBD
The Denver stretch.
Working remote from Thatcher's in Lakewood. Rough plan is a week or so, but nothing's locked — could be shorter, could stretch longer depending on how tours and the storage drop shake out. Apartment tours in the Wheat Ridge / Golden / Applewood corridor, a weekday round at Fossil Trace in Golden if the calendar lets me.
Return
Early May (TBD)
Empty truck, southbound.
Trailer dropped at the Wadsworth U-Haul in Lakewood on the Saturday — that piece is fixed by the rental window. The actual drive home happens whenever the Denver stretch wraps; probably a one-day push with the empty truck. Maybe a detour for a round at Rawls on I-27 on the way down, maybe the straightest line home.
§ 05 · Particulars
The details, for the curious.
- Lodging
- SW Amarillo (I-40 / Soncy) on the Thursday, then Thatcher's place in Lakewood for a week or so — loose on the exact length.
- Rig
- 2022 Tacoma hauling a 4×8 U-Haul cargo trailer — dropped at the Wadsworth U-Haul in Lakewood on the Saturday.
- The round
- Ross Rogers WildHorse at 7 AM Friday. A weekday tee time at Fossil Trace in Golden during the Denver week, if the tours allow.
- Correspondence
- Text or Signal at any hour — I'll be driving a lot of it. Doubly welcome if you're anywhere near the route.