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Searching for the Fall Colors on the Peak-to-Peak Highway

A couple of years ago I took a drive from Denver to look for some fall colors. Iwrote about mysearch and how I drove up and around on a section of the Peak-to-Peak Highway through a couple of different Colorado counties. Now, while the leaves were just at that right state of gold, I wanted […]

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A Hike Around Chautauqua

I was craving a bit of outdoor recreation for quite some time; it had been months since my last hike up in the Rocky Mountains. Traveling to Rwanda and New York has kept me in between trips to finish my book, but finally time has started to open up a bit for me. Of course, […]

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Driving up Pikes Peak

O beautiful for spacious skies, It was a beautiful day as I drove up Pikes Peak with my friends Brian and Keith. The two are brothers that I’ve known since my college days at the University of Minnesota. They were out visiting for the weekend and wanted to go to Colorado Springs to travel to […]

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Hiking to Native Lake

It was getting late in the season, despite some snow on the ground in pockets along trails, and I hadn’t been out for a good, solid hike yet. I was so busy running around to New York and Rwanda that I’ve missed out, in a manner of speaking, on some opportunities to explore my own […]

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Witnessing the Monte Vista Crane Migration

On my way back to Denver I had to make one final stop, recommended to me by a coworker. He recently went down there to do an amazing story and told me that I need to get down that way to check it out too. But, after seeing his still photos, which he told me […]

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Exploring Mesa Verde National Park

In the nearly ten years I’ve lived in Colorado I’ve tried to make it to the southwest portion of the state. But, that distance is actually quite a long trip. For people who live in smaller states out east who possibly don’t understand how long the drive is, it takes nearly seven hours to get […]

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