Recently, an opportunity presented itself to head to Reno for a few days. It had been a while, too long, truthfully, since the last time I got to travel. Reno had never been somewhere that was particularly on my radar, but I am forever excited by the chance to see new places. To be honest,…
Great Sand Dunes National Park
The Sangre De Cristo mountains hold many secrets. The impossibility of being able to learn all these secrets is advantageous, though. With ecosystems abound (tundra, desert, forest and wetlands), these secrets would take a lifetime and longer to uncover. At the base of these mountains are the Great Sand Dunes, one of the best kept…
Postcards from Santa Monica
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget – Joan Didion We woke up before the sun to get up and out to the airport first thing Easter morning. With California calling and Santa Monica sunshine on our minds, we waited for our boarding call. Thinking back to when I…
A Day in Fairplay
If my trip to Fairplay assured me of one thing, it is this: in a past life I was a cowgirl, of this I am certain. One of the things I like most about the mountains is the sprawling openness. All of this empty space seems to fill my mind with daydreams. It seems like…
Gratitude
I’ve been trying to practice more gratitude lately. Being grateful for the things that take me away both literally and metaphorically. Planes, trains and automobiles. I used to think of them in a different light, because I didn’t use two of them very often. They all eventually get you to where you’d like to go, though. I’ve never written…