Vacation Report: Day Two #1

From Limon we made our way through the outskirts of Denver (tolls cost us $6.75 to go about 25 miles!) to the suburb of Lafayette, CO where we ended up where any summer vacationing tourists might end up: the cemetery! Yes we were in search of the supposed gravesite of an actual vampire! It could be identified as such by the haggard tree growing up right where the wooden stake was planted in his heart! The hoary rosebushes that sprouted on either side grew from the vampire's clawlike fingernails!

After getting dowsed by the sprinkler system and a fruitless search for the gravesite we finally decided to go for broke and just ask the caretaker. We have no pride. But to our surprise he said, "Sure, I know where it is!" and led us straight to it! Almost apologetically he explained they'd cut down the rose bushes and cleaned up the site. But the tree remains.In the end we just felt sorry for the fellow buried there. A Transylvanian immigrant named Theodore Glava, simply by virtue of his country of origin, has been labeled as an evil blood-sucking monster. The Denver library lists a Theodore Glava born 1877 registered for the draft in Boulder during WW1.God bless you Mr. Glava!