They say "Love is more precious than gold"Can't be bought and it can't be soldI got love enough to spareThat makes me a millionaire-Chris Stapleton This Chris Stapleton song was one of my cousin TC’s favorites and has become…
Colorado
Most people enter Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park at the east entrance and we did so in 2021 (post linked here). This year we entered from the west end. This nearly forgotten side of the park had few visitors,…
As we noted in the blog during our first trip to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison in Colorado (that post linked here), this canyon is underrated. From Telluride. we were headed to the suburbs of Denver to see friends and family so we decided to…
If you don’t want to hear my brag about my home state of Colorado, stop reading now! I mean it. You aren’t going to like the audacious claims I’m about to make.…
Mesa Verde protects the cliff dwellings, kivas, pit houses, pueblos, masonry towers, and farming structures of the Ancestral Pueblo peoples who lived here for more than 700 years. This park undoubtedly contains the most notable and best preserved dwellings…
From near Denver we headed toward South Park for a blast from my past (highschool years). We boondocked just outside Fairplay in the San Isabel National Forest. Oddly, I never camped there when I was living in Fairplay. Making…
Every fall I see pictures from back east of “fall colors”. In the west, fall is spectacular in my home state, Colorado, and I was on a mission in 2020 to share this with Doug! After some time in…
I’m convinced there isn’t a person on the planet who didn’t suffer in some manner due to Covid – some paid the ultimate price with their life. For others, it was job loss, food insecurity, financial stress, not being…
I was born and raised in Colorado but have no recollection of going to Rocky Mountain National Park so I was ecstatic about the trip. We spent the first day driving the Trail Ridge Road (which had luckily just…
Doug’s great at planning our routes and was able to secure an entry time and date to Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park in mid-September of 2020 so from Medicine Bow we made our way to Loveland, CO and then…