July has been the month for visitors! This week we hosted my brother Ryan and my sister-in-law Jenny, who were visiting between a wedding in Seattle and a wedding outside of Denver. During one of our adventures, Dan and I took Ryan and Jenny to Ginger and Baker, a restaurant that I love for as […]
Read MoreWhitewater rafting, Rocky Mountain Adventures
My dear friend Ben is in town! Ben and his family, all of whom I have known for over a decade (except for his hilarious 7-year-old daughter Eliza), are on a long road trip for their summer vacation. They were kind enough to work Fort Collins into their plan and we have spent the past […]
Read MoreWinston-Salem, North Carolina
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way back home to Colorado — but for a few frantic and fun days, I found myself in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on business. My employer put me up in the Brookstown Inn, an enormous, historic hotel that was once (eons ago) a cotton mill. My […]
Read MoreHouse tour: office makeover (again)
One of the differences between Dan and me is that where I have dreams, he has plans. My life kicked into a higher gear when I met a man who knew how to take big ideas and make them real. That goes for big things, such as all the travel that we manage to do, […]
Read MoreFoCo DoCo (Fort Collins Donut Company)
Wonderful news and terrible news all at once: there is a new doughnut shop in town. Welcome, FoCo DoCo! Situated in Old Town, FoCo DoCo is a very easy bike ride from our house: near enough that we can visit any time we want, and not far enough to burn off the calories over the […]
Read MoreSalt Lake City: bonus photos
After I detailed our trip to Firehole Canyon and Salt Lake City (part 1, part 2), Dan sent me his own collection of photographs, most of them from Firehole, and many of which I loved enough to want to throw up an extra post full of them. Enjoy. 🙂 Is it just my imagination, or […]
Read MoreSalt Lake City, part 2
Yesterday I published a blog post about Dan and my hijinks in Salt Lake City, Utah. However, there was no way to include as many photos as I would have liked without making the post run on for days. I found SLC to be a vivid and beautiful city –if quiet, especially as our main […]
Read MoreSalt Lake City, part 1
Back home in Ohio I worked for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by John Morris Russell. When I was leaving Cincinnati, John reminded me that he guest-conducts the Utah Symphony in the summer, and that some time Dan and I ought to come out for a concert. Not the type to turn down that kind […]
Read MoreFlaming Gorge/Firehole Canyon
It has been a while since Dan and I have taken to the open road for more than a 2-hour drive. This weekend we voyaged to Salt Lake City — but on our way to Utah we camped in Wyoming in a beautiful area of Flaming Gorge called Firehole Canyon. It was a perfect excursion […]
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