Visiting Dinosaur National Monument was worth doing: the petroglyphs, secret canyons, the desert itself drew me. I admit I was scared…for one thing I hadn’t camped in years and years. But there was more. This was the first such trip in a long time where I would be in charge. The family had visited before, […]
First of all some brief details on traveling Trail Ridge Road: What: A 48-mile long route along the tops of the Rocky Mountains, crossing the Continental Divide, and allowing serene and amazing views of the tundra ecosystem, the mountain sky, and snowy cirques. (Cirques are those bowls near the mountain peaks that catch snow and
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
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
