The drive from Colorado Springs through the mountains to Hooper in the San Luis Valley was full of beautiful mountain scenery. There are several mountain passes that separate the busy front range from the wide…
Month: September 2019
Colorado Springs
The next stop for the Airstream on our road trip was Colorado Springs, or “The Springs” as the locals here in Colorado call it. We had originally only planned on staying there for two days…
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado is known for its big mountains and wildlife. The Continental Divide runs through the park over the high mountain peaks and the views from those mountains go on forever….
Sell Yourself the Best Year of Your Life
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade…
South Dakota
We finally felt like we had reached “the west” when we arrived in western South Dakota. It took several long days to get here from Milwaukee but the drive was well worth it. We even…
Across the Upper Midwest
We left Ohio to strike out across the midwest without much of an agenda or an idea what to expect. Our only planned stop was to see some friends from Richmond who had moved to…
Cuyahoga Valley
We didn’t really know what to think about the next stop on our trip, Ohio. We originally decided to stop in Ohio because, frankly, it was between the Northeast and the West and there was…