Don't know where we're going, but we're making great time.
Denver isn’t exactly the Colorado town for us — a little too expensive, you have to drive to get to mountain stuff/views, and it’s overrun with Avs fans & scooter people. However, we were told repeatedly that the smaller communities outside of the city would probably be a better fit. So we decided to rent…
When we first started walking around the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill and City Park, we couldn’t help but notice something…odd. Every cool, old mansion and large house seemed to have a pair of lions out front. Big lions, little lions, sleeping, roaring, preening, posing — lions were everywhere. There’s even a dive bar on Colfax…
Denver has some nice big parks. City park is where my goose friends live and cormorant island lurks. It also borders the zoo so you can get an occasional glimpse of non-native beasts. As we’re walking I’m always imagining escape and evade options in the event the sirens go off at the zoo indicating a…
The weather has warmed up, so naturally we dipped into Denver’s ice cream scene to get the scoop. Little Man Ice Cream. A standard allotment of butterfat-filled flavors conveniently located on the front steps of Linger’s. Plan to go to the funeral parlor for a light lunch, then sit in the shade of the giant…
In case you were unaware, electric scooters are the hot garbage of transportation. I hadn’t planned to say anything, but I have friends in Chicago who are excited by the prospect of electric scooter pilot programs in the city. I’ve now lived in a scooter-friendly city for two months and have developed an informed opinion:…
It’s pretty much guaranteed that if there are big, hulking rocks in the vicinity, Jan and I will be there eventually. We can’t seem to resist the lure of climbing around to check out the view. So naturally we headed west to Red Rocks. Red Rocks Amphitheater is a grouping of natural rock formations tucked…
I think when we put Denver on the list we had visions of Rocky Mountain highs, cavorting with elk and fishing cold mountain streams (upriver of Coors). The getting high part is easy as the wacky tabaccy is everywhere. Elk we saw in Oregon and Tammy got as close as you ever want to get…
I feel I have to start by apologizing for a certain lack of Portland, Oregon posts — I smacked my laptop screen during our adventures and was reduced to 1/3 of usable screen. There was some time spent traveling to and from the mountains/coast, then trying to find a suitable laptop replacement in stock within…