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 […]
Read MoreColorado Tiny House Festival
Dan shot all of the following photos at the 2018 Colorado Tiny House Festival, which covers an entire fairground in Brighton with double-wide mobile homes, towable trailers, and everything in between. (Not that you can tell, but he used the same camera that Nathan used for his mountain bike photography — Dan fell in love […]
Read MoreMountain biking, part 3: Red Mountain Open Space
This is the third and final photo essay from Nathan and Dan’s recent mountain biking excursions. (Here are part 1: Horsetooth Mountain, and part 2: Curt Gowdy State Park.) In part 3, our friend Justin joins Nathan and Dan again to take on Red Mountain Open Space in northernmost Colorado. (Below is the kind of shot […]
Read MoreMountain biking, part 2: Curt Gowdy State Park
Yesterday I started a three-part series, sharing photos from Dan and his friend Nathan’s recent mountain biking excursions. (If you missed it, here’s part 1: Horsetooth Mountain.) For part 2, our friend Justin joined Dan and Nathan for a ride through Curt Gowdy State Park in Wyoming. (Red helmet = Justin!) (Stand-up paddleboarding is on […]
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