Trail Ridge Road? No no no no. They have told me it’s scary. There are cliffs. Apparently pretty dramatic ones. My mother, who is afraid of heights, went up there once and now she’s afraid to drive on any part of the Rockies. Even people generally considered “normal” and not paranoid or unstable say Trail […]
Visiting an Iconic Tea Factory, Connecting with Childhood The magical Celestial Seasonings Tour in Boulder, Colorado is at the corner of Zinger and Sleepytime Drive, behind a small prairie dog village. As you drive up, the dogs stare out at you flipping their tiny tails back and forth, and you wonder: is this it? Then
The Sound of Gravel Book Review: It’s dark outside and in the beginning of The Sound of Gravel. The polygamous cult in which Wariner is raised, 200 miles south of Juarez, Mexico, is a land of rural beauty and grinding poverty. Living off the land is not exactly working for the 30-odd families of
Bohemian Rhapsody review: On the picture, not the song. I almost didn’t go to see the Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody. The DJ said on the radio at the time. “As for a Bohemian Rhapsody review … well, the reviews are mixed.” After watching it, and being thoroughly moved, especially by the second half of the
I finished Educated by Tara Westover and I enjoyed every minute of it, though the story’s villains — Westover’s parents and her brother Shawn — were unpleasant in the extreme, and slippery to the end. The story, which at the outset appears to treat mainly of the academic success of a child of radical unschooler
I am in mourning because yesterday I finished Hell Bent, a book I was totally taken up with, totally lost in the author’s tale. And now it’s over, I can never visit that world for the first time again. Benjamin Lorr was at one time, if you like, a Bikram Kool-Aid drinker, who went to
Wild by Cheryl Strayed Book Review: A woman’s woman’s book, a woman hiker’s bible, and meditation on what matters, in an exciting package. I have been reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed and have found in her a fellow-traveler in more ways than one. Not just someone who felt she had to go somewhere for spiritual
To say I was a little bit apprehensive might be an understatement. The source of my fear wasn’t simply all that water, but something else.
This is the attraction we came to Key West to see, the Hemingway Museum, Key West. This is a two story bungalow on high ground in the middle of the island. Surrounded by roads commonly walked by tourists, by wandering bantam roosters, men wearing hats of all types, and inhabited by polydactl cats, this is
If you are planning to visit Hemingway bars where he drank when he lived on Key West, Florida, you have two stops to make. First To Captain Tony’s Captain Tony’s Saloon in Key West is a dark hole with tables, a guitarist, a bar tender and a gnarled tree pushing up through the ceiling like
