Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
Before we’d even moved to Colorado, I started following the goings-on at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Based in Denver, Lighthouse brings in phenomenal writers of diverse backgrounds for workshops and seminars all year long. I daydreamed that I would spend scads of time at Lighthouse once we lived in Colorado, but the realities of living 90 […]
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I know a lot of people who don’t care for road trips, but Dan and I prefer to drive anywhere we can. Trust me, we are not immune to the exhaustion that comes from long hours on the road — in fact, as I sit here writing this, half an hour after this very road […]
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I had no idea Vail was so cute! Though I love to travel, I am no great lover of ski towns. I usually find them to be crowded, overly manicured and often terribly dull if you’re not a skiier (as I am not). It has been much more fun visiting the resorts in the summer, […]
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Y’all, Dan and I have been together for tennnnn yearrrrrrs. June 6 is the day we began dating a decade ago, and also the day we were married three years ago. (Also my grandmother’s birthday!) In 2016 we enjoyed an incredibly simple, casual wedding ceremony on the banks of the Ohio River. In attendance: my […]
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(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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Happy Star Wars Day! Dear Colorado: where are my nerds? I sorely miss working at the Cincinnati Comic Expo, I don’t have a roleplaying group in Fort Collins and I have barely touched a board game in a year and a half. Something’s gotta give! On Star Wars Day (May the Fourth…), the Poudre River […]
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Above: Danny and his partner Russ. I know Danny from Cincinnati, but we’ve gotten to know each other better since we both moved to Colorado within a month of each other. Danny’s out in Boulder now, but he and Russ were visiting Fort Collins and had time for dinner at Restaurant 415. Dan and I […]
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