Adventures on I-70

This weekend, I decided to head up to Eagle for the day.  I wanted to see Jill and Lainey, and to see how far Eagle is from our new place since we're waaaaay closer to I-70 now (still 2 hours).  AND, I wanted to see some fall color since it never lasts for long in Colorado! 

I had a lovely time in Eagle (we had pumpkin pancakes and coffee, hiked to the park--no such thing as a walk in Eagle!, then had lunch and I was off again to head back home to get stuff done around the house).  But I just HAD to stop to take some pictures outside of Vail:

So I was happily driving along I-70 thinking how EASY it had been to get Eagle and back in a day when I pulled up to this:

And saw THIS behind me:

The electronic billboard had told me there was an RV fire at MM 188, but I didn't think much of it until we were stuck for AN HOUR 3 miles behind it.  Luckily, I was tired anyways, so took a nap, then played with the setting on my camera.  Once we started moving, it still took us another 30 minutes to get 3 miles, but here's what the RV looked like after the fire: