Follow Dreams to Colorado

As I write this sentence, the year is 2011. Time to follow my dream and leave Las Vegas for Colorado, the new tech center in the United States. Silicon Valley freeways have become a parking lot. Cars don’t move an inch during rush hour traffic. I was in San Francisco last week meeting with associates involved with medical devices, cardiology mixed in with microscopic digital instruments. A 30 minute drive ten years ago has become a two hour drive today. The economy is pouring money into construction projects. The jobs are wonderful, but construction on bridges during the height of tourist season backs from traffic from San Jose in the south to Cloverdale in the north. The next high tech sector in America will be a triangulation of Colorado cities; Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs. Engineers from the University of Colorado, Boulder will combine their creative minds with the scientists of Denver. The military will scout for new projects that peak their interests outside of Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs became a military base at the time the atomic bomb was being build by scientists involved with the Manhattan Project. The warnings of nuclear arms following the Cold War brought military investors. The Supreme Commander of NATO, Dwight D. Eisenhower became President of the United States in 1953. Eisenhower searched for the perfect location to build the Air Force Academy. The President picked Colorado Springs. Soon Colorado Springs became headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in 1958. My aunt was working for the military in Washington D.C. following the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Soviet leader Khrushchev wanted to counter the U.S. threat of nuclear war by stationing missiles in Cuba. My aunt says that Washington D.C. separated after missiles were found off the coast of Florida. Too much power was amassed in Washington DC. The military had to spread out to Washington near the Pacific Ocean and Colorado Springs in the center of the nation. In the 1984 film, Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, the Soviet Union with the help of Cuba invades the United States via Calumet, Colorado. Oddly enough, the irony of filmmaking takes presidence. The town used to film the location of Calumet in the Red Dawn film was the city of Las Vegas in New Mexico.