Yesterday, we stopped by the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Reserve on our way to Amarillo, Texas on the first leg of our trip back home. The dunes are massive. They are a living geometry of wind, gravity and time. I felt like I was standing in a sine wave, watching the slowed down…
I’ve had a wonderful week in Colorado, and I’m sad to put it in my rear-view mirror, but it’s time to get back to my life in Virginia. The perspective that different landscapes offer me emotionally is why I travel, and I feel more at home with myself now that I’ve had my fix of…
Lately, I’ve noticed how often people, especially waitstaff, answer ‘perfect’ when I order something. And it drives me nuts. The conversation is the same…no matter where I go. “I would like some soda water.” Perfect! “I’d like the gluten-free pizza with non-dairy cheese and chicken.” Perrrrfect. I’ve always had a problem with this word,…
I prefer to travel where the pavement ends and my phone says, “No Service”. Let me also add, as long as I am in a high clearance 4-Wheel drive vehicle. For the last four years, my step-father and I have headed out West to explore forest service roads that lead to spectacular ruins and scenery….
The river gave me more than a view yesterday…it handed me back my joy. I’ve always loved to fish. When I was a little girl, and dad told me he was going fishing early in the morning, I would get dressed and sleep in my clothes so he wouldn’t leave me behind. Not that he…
Yesterday, we traveled to Gothic, Colorado, and spent the day playing and resting peacefully near the East river. The valley past Gothic is one of my favorite locations near Gunnison. Gothic is an old mining town that turned ghost town fairly quickly when the wire-silver discovery went bust. Now, it’s home to the Rocky Mountain…
Yesterday, I visited a place in the Rockies where limestone is transformed into marble. It was a heck of trip over the mountains on a forest service road from Crested Butte to Marble, but worth the effort. But what is marble, exactly? Marble starts out from limestone. Limestone is the accumulation of life that has…
