Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
Salida feels like ages ago! It has been the better part of a week since we last had an internet connection that could handle more than a photo per hour. (Ahem.) Salida, nestled in the mountains of mid-western Colorado, is a 4-hour drive from Fort Collins. It’s the kind of town Dan could possibly talk […]
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Last year I completely missed my local Comic Con due to travel, so this year I marked it on the calendar early. (I have been to one Comic Con event; this is the group which organizes the Kessel Run race in order to raise money for the local library!) The Fort Collins Comic Con takes […]
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I have a blogging philosophy that goes a little something like this: get sh*t up quickly, because the next thing is already barreling down the pike. In service of that philosophy, I take all of my photos on my iPhone. It’s a decent camera. I do very little editing, because editing is not getting sh*t […]
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I promise, it was not my intention to visit three different art museums over our three days in Wyoming/Montana. Tippet Rise was always our main destination (read that post here), but the Brinton Museum (post here) was a spur-of-the-moment stop. Then, during our Tippet Rise sculpture tour, our fellow tourists all but insisted that we […]
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This is a love story. If you know me, that means the story probably revolves around Dan or art. In this case, it’s both. The adventure began with a TED Talk about an architecture studio that revels in using and showcasing “raw, imperfect materials.” I was already charmed by the ideas in the video when […]
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On the road again, this time en route to Montana! This adventure involves both Dan and my mountain bikes — but more on that complicated adventure tomorrow. Before we could get to Montana, we had a lot of Wyoming to cover. We passed through Cheyenne and Casper before finding ourselves in the Sheridan/Bighorn area. We […]
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Sometimes I believe in magic. When I was debating my next tattoo I was torn between two options: a Russian nesting doll, or a piece of flash. (My artist Cambria has designed all of my tattoos based on my ideas, but she also has her own ideas and designs, “flash.” As someone who basically wants […]
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If you ask someone if they want to try something new, you’ll find there are two types of people in the world: the maybe-next-times and the I-thought-you’d-never-asks. I have the good fortune to be completely surrounded by the latter. When “Learn to Curl” came across my Facebook feed, I knew just who to send the […]
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In Ohio there is a well-known regionalism: when you meet someone knew, you ask them which high school they attended. That doesn’t happen out here in Colorado, probably because almost no one is originally from here. Instead, it seems that every other day I am asked, whether by friends or by strangers, “Have you seen […]
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The 2019 Fort Collins Fringe Festival has wrapped! (For an introduction to this Fringe Festival, read my previous post here.) This was my first year being able to attend my local Fringe in earnest. A few of my favorite moments from this year’s festival, in no particular order: Stalking a bridesmaid around Old Town as […]
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