Nachdem ich das lokale Skigebiet inzwischen schon in und auswendig kenne, habe ich es im Januar endlich auch mal in ein paar der größeren Skigebiete in den Rocky Mountains geschafft. Zusammen mit Kaleb, einem meiner Mitbewohner, war ich Mitte des Monats in Vail. Er hatte einen Tag unter der Woche frei bekommen und wollte sich das Vergnügen auf menschenleeren Pisten zu boarden natürlich nicht nehmen lassen. Da ich problemlos frei nehmen konnte, fuhren wir schließlich zu zweit die etwa zwei Stunden bis nach Vail. Dank eines Gutscheins musste ich nur die Hälfte des stolzen Preises für eine Tage [View Full Entry]

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There's no such thing as "getting it out of your system". A taste of Amsterdam wasn't enough. A glimpse of Colorado wasn't enough. I want everything that this big bad world has to throw at me. A part of me wants the stability and comfort of the post college life that all my friends lead. I want the cute apartment with the IKEA and garage store furnishings. I want the semi-fulfilling 9-5 job with Free Lunch Fridays. I want the little herb garden in a sunny kitchen window. I want the camaraderie of commiserating about being a poor post-grad over margaritas. [View Full Entry]

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So my favorite place I have traveled to was high up in the mountains. we(my friend Jean and I)went to a off road trail way up in Cole creak canyon in golden Colorado. Its not real in golden its more off to the side of golden. Anyway we went up there around the end of spring after a hard rain. I’ve had my permit for about a year now was driving my truck (85 GMC jimmy). I had decided to go mudding after the last hard rain of spring about for month before this trip when there was like two feet [View Full Entry]

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... sind schwer zu beschreiben! Aber mal von Anfang an: Letzten Sonntag war ich in Longmont, einem Nachbarort von Boulder, Fallschirm springen. Die Idee dazu hatte ich schon länger, es mangelte bisher nur an Geld und der letzten Entschlossenheit. Nachdem vor dem Wochenende beides in ausreichender Menge vorhanden war und auch noch perfektes Wetter vorhergesagt wurde, beschloss ich spontan einen Sprung zu buchen. Heiko lies sich auch schnell dazu überreden auch zu springen, so dass es kein Zurück mehr gab. Am Sonntag mussten wir dann in Ermangelung eines Autos mit Bus und Fahrrad zum Flughaf [View Full Entry]

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Our trip to Colorado... We stayed just south of Denver and drove up to Estes Park and went to the Rocky Mountain Park. It was definatly worth the drive... [View Full Entry]

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While walking down a dusty old road I noticed something off in the distance. It was a mine. Little did I know I had just stumbled upon one of the greaatest discoveries I've ever even imagined. Being a normal curious human being i walked down the hill to the mine to go check it out. What I found was amazing. A ghost town. Not just that but real silver and a billion of the coolest looking nick-nacks just scattered on an old table in an even oldr building. Later I would find out that I found a lost silver mine form [View Full Entry]

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Ski trip to Winter Park. [View Full Entry]

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...in order to discover your own roots. There were opportunities in Boston: they taught me to push myself. There was power in Geneva: it taught me humility. There were sights to be seen in Paris: they taught me to keep looking. There were mountains in Vienna: they taught me to keep climbing... but reminded me how it felt to look West. And everywhere, there were people: they were my passion - they taught me how to serve. It's been an interesting couple of months, hasn't it? I spent the 3 months prior to this one trying to recognize the path below [View Full Entry]

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In case anyone was wondering, this is what the best job in the world looks like. I cannot begin to describe the pleasure of working a full day of hard, honest work. None of this office cubicle, bureaucratic, paper shuffling BS. This is actually work I can feel good about at the end of the day. I don't want to leave. Still lost. Still confused. Still not sure what to do as a college grad. [View Full Entry]

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Words can't describe, so I'll let some pictures do the talking. I'll be back. I can't imagine this being the last ten days I spend in the most beautiful country I've ever seen. In the borrowed words of John Denver Almost heaven, Colorado, Rocky Mountains, Colorado River. Life is old there, older than the trees, Younger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze. Country Roads, take me home, To the place I belong: West Virginia, mountain momma, Take me home, country roads. All my mem'ries, gather 'round her, Miner's lady, stranger to blue water. Dark and dusty, painted on the [View Full Entry]

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