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March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Erica ReidLeave a Comment

Utah: Bike Adventures in Moab

Besides visiting Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, Dan and I had one other goal for our Utah workcation: get the bikes dirty. Of course, that means something different for me than for him. Dan found a rental house parked right on a paved bike trail, so I had two different options for quick 7-mile spins […]

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March 14, 2021March 13, 2021 Erica ReidLeave a Comment

Utah: Arches National Park

You know what they say about the best-laid plans… We had to cut our Moab trip a little short due to “an historic winter storm” rolling into Colorado. (Some snow at home is not a big deal, but driving through the mountains on the other hand…) Since this was a working trip for me, the […]

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March 8, 2021March 13, 2021 Erica ReidLeave a Comment

Utah: Canyonlands National Park

Greetings from Utah! Dan and I are in Moab or a work-cation: we’ll both work our regular hours during the week but spend the weekends in the nearby National Parks. Dan will also spend some bonus time mountain biking. Though our rental is a stone’s throw from Arches, we spent Saturday driving around Canyonlands NP. […]

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Salt Lake City: bonus photos

July 8, 2018July 8, 2018 Erica ReidLeave a Comment

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 […]

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Salt Lake City, part 2

July 6, 2018July 3, 2018 Erica ReidLeave a Comment

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 […]

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Salt Lake City, part 1

July 5, 2018July 3, 2018 Erica ReidLeave a Comment

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 […]

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