This morning, around 6:30am, my 9 year old son woke me up wide eyed and full of excitement. “Mom, it snowed!” After throwing some snowballs in our yard, we decided to drive out to the Rio Grande Gorge. We weren’t disappointed! As he stated, on our drive back home, before he fell asleep against…
Category: Travel
Great Sand Dunes Nat’l Park, CO
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal…
Big Horn Sheep
As I walked out along the Rio Grande Gorge, a favorite of mine to visit, I came across a cyclists who told me that big horn sheep were farther down the path about 1/2 a mile. This being my first chance to possibly get a photo of these beautiful creatures, I sped up my walking…
Mesa Verde National Park, CO
Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to 1300. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best…
January Adventures 