I ran for the cover under the tall lodgepole pine trees. Rain was falling in large, fat droplets at Rocky Mountain National Park’s Dream Lake and I wanted nothing to do with it; I wasn’t prepared with a jacket or even a cap. But I knew, as someone who was taking cover with me joked, […]
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Remembering the Sand Dunes
After a long drive, it was still relatively early in the morning at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. I was entertaining guests from London, England two-and-a-half years ago, and they wanted to see something scenic in Colorado. So, since I had taken them to Rocky Mountain National Park on a previous trip, […]
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 […]
Touring the Colorado National Monument
My adventures to and from Las Vegas for my birthday took me to a great many interesting and wonderful places. I’ve been considering how I should write about it all as I saw and did so many things that it’s really quite impossible to put it down in one post unless I want it to […]
Doing Mount Evans in a T-Shirt
I’ve done more than my fair share of stupid things in my life. And after going up Mount Evans, one of the notable 14ers of Colorado, in only a t-shirt, you can certainly add another to that ever growing list. When I left home in the morning for a day of nice, leisurely hikes, the […]
Driving the Trail Ridge
Since I moved to Colorado nine years ago, almost to the day, I’ve wanted to drive Trail Ridge Road, the highest continual road in the country at a maximum elevation of 12,183 feet. And finally, today, I did just that. It was a long day with a lot of driving, but the views on Trail […]
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