Tag: Colorado

  • Racism – Thoughts and Reflections

    Racism – Thoughts and Reflections

    Racism in Arizona, and while serving abroad. Reflections and thoughts.

  • Heading home from the Rockies

    Heading home from the Rockies

    Hello there! Welcome back, as I mentioned in my last post, it had been a gorgeous few weeks. Our trip up and over the Rockies and then back down into Grand Lake was exhilarating. As our family wandered through the San Juan and Rocky Mountains we were treated to a stunning, exceptional series of moments…

  • A day trip in the Rocky Mountains

    A day trip in the Rocky Mountains

    We’d spent the night in Grand Lake, in a cozy restored cabin, resting along a small creek that fed down into the lake itself. With a bubbling brook on one side, and the great grand lake to the other, it was a beautiful restful night. We found good food for dinner (Ma cooked), and we…

  • The Black Canyon of the Gunnison

    It was already the next morning, the sun seeming to race across the horizon and stream into the sky. The light was just starting to pick up in the valley as we checked out, loaded up and started on our way. We were headed up to the north country, towards Rocky Mountain National Park and…

  • Ouray!

    Hooray for Ouray! Mountains above Telluride, Headed over the pass toward Ouray We were on our way from Telluride, up over those gorgeous mountains, and across the way to Ouray. Now to be fair we actually had to go out and around those mountains, but let me tell you – the view was worth every…

  • Telluride, on the way to Ouray!

    The Last time I reminisced, I was thinking of our drive up over Lizard Head pass, and down into the west fork of the Dolores. We’d passed through beautiful mountain meadows, and back down to the familiar, gorgeous beauty of the Dolores river valley and the McPhee reservoir. The next series of memories that came…