Category: colorado
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Your Local Theme Park is as Good as you Remember
Many times we are reminded that theme parks are for kids. They are money sucks of candy and cartoons and memorable characters and wild rides that make many adults queasy. We are reminded to take our kids to this and that so they have fun and memories and pictures. But I say, hold up, theme…
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Five Ways to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo
Five Ways to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo – without being disrespectful
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Travel Gear – Jackets
When packing for trips around the world, it’s easy to lose sight of what will make a trip comfortable versus fashionable, and practical versus pretty. As women there is endless expectations places on us to look a certain way, especially as we move through fashionable cities and regions of the world. Yet that is not…
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Wandering Relatives
Sometimes it feels like a cliché to say such and such thing or personality or idea is in “one’s blood”. At times this attitude has been used for a variety of horrific crimes on humanity. It’s been justified to cause pain and harm, promote superiority, or enhance nationalistic nonsense. I’m cautious to say anything is…
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Don’t Act Your Age
It’s easy to fall into the expectations of a culture. It’s easy to yield to social, familial, and religious pressure. It’s easy to “be” for others, but is harder to put your foot down and be yourself. Out culture has a lot of unwritten rules. By 18 you graduate high school. By 22 it’s college.…
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Planning for the Unknown
… because in our world of instant gratification people don’t always understand that other parts of the world have more layers to their exploration.
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To Camera…or Not to Camera
I love photography, as anyone that has followed this blog for a while knows. However, I am conflicted with a constant concern when I travel if I should bring my camera equipment or stick with my phone. The simple answer is I don’t know. I don’t know because it depends so greatly on how one…
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Winter Fun – Colorado Style
Colorado is shockingly mild in the winter months. Sure we have days or weeks of bitter cold or 6 feet of snow every year or two, but for the most of the winter, it’s not bad. This means that we get spoiled with having great days to play outside in the winter. While we can’t…
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Ice Ice Baby – Dillon Ice Castle
The city of Dillon, Colorado along with a handful of other cities around North America have welcomed the magic and whimsy of #IceCastles the last few years. The company creates elegant magic with their ice castles creating spires, spikes, fountains, slides, and other intriguing icy creations. With our Dog Sledding trip in late January, it…
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Dog Sledding Colorado
I’ve realized the older I get that the whole point of life is to try on hats and see what fits. Maybe not the point, but part of what you do. I try on hats for work. I try on hats for spots and health. I try on artistic hats. Some fit some don’t. Some…