Colorado Travelog #17
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 9pm

Whew. It has been a long day! We started the morning in Grand Junction, hiked Devil's Kitchen in Colorado National Monument, then drove to Telluride. In Telluride we 4x4'ed/hiked Bridalveil and Ingram Falls, and hiked Cornet Falls. By the time we finished all that it was going on 7pm, ( Read more... )

Colorado Travelog #14
Telluride, CO - Monday, 4 Jul 2022, 3pm

A few minutes ago we rolled into Telluride, the core of our trip to Colorado this week. Hawk pulled out her phone to check the address of our vacation rental in town. (She couldn't do that for most of the past hour because we're in a remote area ( Read more... )

Now that I've caught up on blogging about our trip to Hawaii this month- I posted the final entry earlier today- it's time for a retrospective about the trip. Yes, I'm had plenty of time to reflect on the trip already. Even though I just finished blogging about it, we finished the actual trip six days ago. (This kind of backlog is typical. 😅) Here ( Read more... )

With our trip to the US Virgin Islands now complete it's time for a retrospective. Here are the take-homes, presented as Five Things:
1) Skin Rash 🥵
Normally "take-homes" means take-home lessons. This first item is more of a take-home thing. Hawk and I both got skin rashes from a bush called Christmas Bush (because it looks like holly). It produces ( Read more... )

Virgin Islands Travelog #7
Cruz Bay, St. John, USVI - Thu, 26 Dec 2019, 9pm

Update: new picture included

After driving all around the island yesterday (previous 3 blogs) today has been a quieter day. Or at least it has since 4am, when our bed broke. I managed to put it back together in the middle of the night, though the mattress still sags on ( Read more... )

Incline Village, NV - Fri, 20 Sep 2019, 11:15pm

This evening we drove to Lake Tahoe. Hawk once again got a last minute opportunity to use one of her company's condos at Lake Tahoe. We got word Tuesday and shifted around our weekend plansLast time we did one of these Friday-night-to-Tahoe drives we got in late, after midnight. That's because Hawk ( Read more... )

Last night I came home from one trip ( 24 hours in Irvine) and was already re-planning the next trip. No, not my return visit to Irvine next week; that's the next-next trip. The immediate next trip is this weekend.

While my flight was taxiing for takeoff yesterday afternoon Hawk texted me that she'd gotten a last-minute spot in one of her company's ( Read more... )

Incline Village, NV - Wed, 7 Aug 2019, 11am

We've gotten off to a gentle start this morning at Lake Tahoe. Our plan had been to go on a full day hike taking advantage of being up here already instead of having to drive anywhere from 2-4 hours to get here. But two things have gotten in the way: One, we're still a bit tired from our adventures at ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a week since we were in Lake Tahoe. I just caught up with the last blog about it ( Horsetail Falls and Pyramid Creek) this morning. I was busy this past week with work travel. Plus, I wrote 13 blogs over just a two day trip! Well, here's one more: a retrospective. Five Things about the condo in Tahoe:

1) This was like a practice trip ( Read more... )

Incline Village, NV - Sat, 8 Jun 2019, 11am

Getting a slow start this morning didn't hurt our schedule too badly because we don't have to spend much time going anywhere. We practically open the front door and we're there.


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