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Denver to the Colorado Trail by bike
In this entry, I introduce another form of travel, bicycle travel. Bicycle travel is simply traveling by bicycle, but there are probably many people in the United States that have never even thought of...
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The Peak to Peak Highway
The weather has not gotten quite good enough for a hike in the mountains. Well, maybe for some people who don’t mind chilly temperatures and trudging through a significant amount of residual snow,...
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The Garden of the Gods: A Place to Collect Thoughts
I was not expecting to make any posts this week, as I have kind of been focusing on some other projects that do not involve traveling. But, for reasons I do not need to get into, I felt the need to...
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Storm Chasing in Kansas and Nebraska
Yesterday, for the first time since moving to Denver, I went storm chasing. Thanks to the movie Twister, the discovery channel’s TV series on storm chasers, and other media, most people are familiar...
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A More Successful Storm Chase
I promise anyone that is reading this that this blog is going to have a good deal of variety. I have a good deal of travel plans starting next week, in which I will be traveling almost non-stop the...
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A Storm Chase Without Feedlots
Just when I was concerned that the entire Northeastern section of Colorado had turned into one giant feedlot, yesterday I was able to go on a storm chase, completely (albeit barely) confined to the...
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Back in Town
It is one of the strangest days any of us will experience. It is also the day that makes a vacation a vacation. It is the first day back. It is the inevitable end of some temporary state of being...
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Denver: The Good, the Bad, and the Surprising
Tomorrow, July 1st, marks the one year anniversary of my move from Chicago to Denver. And, well, since I have not really been traveling ever since returning home from my back-to-back-to-back trips on...
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Red Rock Canyon Open Space
Two miles south of Garden of the Gods, a place called Red Rock Canyon Open Space offers some of the same natural features. Red Rock Canyon Open Space is a city park, belonging to the city of Colorado...
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Regional Familiarity
Within only a month or so of moving to Colorado, one of the things I missed quite a bit about the Midwest was the familiarity I had with the region. After 19 years in the Midwest, I had grown quite...
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A Rite of Passage
Birth to roughly age 22 is an endless barrage of rites of passages. There is birth itself, first steps, first words, first day of school, learning to ride a bike, first kiss, then high school and...
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Horsetooth Reservoir; A Great Place for Water Sports, and Your Dog
About ten minutes west of the town of Fort Collins, Colorado sits the Horsetooth Reservoir, a six and a half mile long, but fairly narrow lake at the edge of the foothills. It was created in 1949...
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Mount Bierstadt on a Windy Sunday
One of the hardest truths to accept in life is that you never know when opportunities are going to run out. There are all kinds of reasons life gets interrupted; new job, new city, new responsibility....
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The Lifeblood of the West
The Colorado River is often referred to as the “Lifeblood of the West“. Recent estimates place the number of people dependent on water from the Colorado River at close to 30 million. This is a...
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A New State Park
Back in May, a new state park opened up in Colorado; Staunton State Park, near Conifer, which is just under an hour Southwest of Denver along highway 285. I started hearing the buzz about this new...
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Goin’ Down to South Park
I decided to break with a previous precedent I had set in this blog to only post one entry about a day’s travels. In retrospect, some of the entries I posted a couple of months ago, which combined...
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Denver to Boulder by Bicycle
Recent studies have shown that not only has bicycle commuting increased in popularity over the course of the 21st Century thus far, but so has bicycle traveling. Maybe it is the rise in gas prices....
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Mount Evans The Easy Way
The United States of America is not perfect. There are definitely some aspects of our history that seem a bit shady, and there are definitely some things I would change if I had my way. But I still...
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An Unexpected Glacier
It’s the first of October. The temperature is around 60 degrees, and the sun is shining. It is the type of weather that would have certainly depleted 6-12 inches of snow back in any East Coast or...
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Bent’s Old Fort
The idea of racial unity, or more accurately the idea of two or more racial/national groups living side-by-side without conflict, and mutual respect for one another is not new. It isn’t, as it feels...
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