Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
(Part 1: Seattle | Part 2: Juneau | Part 3: Skagway) It’s not the cities I was looking forward to in Alaska, it was the spaces between the cities, the expanses of sky and sea and mountains. And ice. Norwegian guides its cruise ships right through Glacier Bay, a National Park the size of Connecticut. […]
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Hello, Skagway! (Part 1, Seattle | Part 2: Juneau) We had a full day in Skagway. Dan and I spent some time wandering the sweet downtown area… …but our ultimate goal was our other excursion: a 15-mile bike ride down one of Skagway’s mountains with Sockeye Cycles. That sounds quite pleasant, doesn’t it? A nice, […]
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Our first major stop on the cruise was Juneau. As I mentioned (see part 1: Seattle), Dan and I have taken a similar cruise in the past, and wanted to make this one feel different by choosing different excursions at the ports. In Juneau, we opted for sea kayaking. Sea kayaking was a big leap […]
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Dan and I have just returned from a 7-day cruise across Alaska’s Inside Passage with Dan’s parents, a stunning adventure which I will detail over the next few posts. Our cruise embarked from Seattle, Washington, and Dan and I flew out a few days early to poke around. We had only spent time in Seattle […]
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Good news: My website is functioning again after a few days’ hiatus. Thank you Dan! Bad news: I’m not on a beach anymore! Back to good news: Coming home means being in Colorado. No real complaint here. All told, we spent about 2.5 days in San Diego. We got the lay of the land the […]
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Dan and I have landed in California! A few weeks ago, when snow was dumping on Colorado, we decided we needed a beach to look forward to. We chose San Diego, and specifically the Coronado area, to improve upon a memory. We had previously visited San Diego together for Comic Con in 2010, and we […]
Read MoreI have been waiting for an experience like Meow Wolf. I am the kind of nerd who publishes articles about how we overuse the word “immersive” in art. It is not that I think everything needs to be immersive — far from it — but I dislike how we bandy that word about and render it meaningless. […]
Read MoreYou know us, always itching for a road trip. This time it was Dan’s idea: 7 hours straight down I-25 to Santa Fe, New Mexico, just a few days before Christmas. He knew I have been itching to visit Meow Wolf, an immersive art experience that is opening a new location in Denver in a […]
Read More3,174 miles later… we are home!! We have just finished putting the new pins in our map of the United States. We had walked through the trip beforehand, using that same map — but now that the miles are behind us, the enormity of it is really hitting me. One city (Edmonton, Alberta) is so […]
Read MoreHead-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site. That’s an incredible name, isn’t it?! (How the Buffalo Jump Got Its Name) When hunting buffalo, a key tactic for Plains Indians was to spark a stampede and drive the buffalo over a cliff to their deaths. At Head-Smashed-In, archaeologists have found thousands of years’ worth of evidence that […]
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