Well flexibility is always best when traveling. We were to go to Black Canyon National Park today, but because of the changeable weather, we thought it was best to see Telluride and surrounding areas while we could. What a fabulous area of Colorado. I think that this is my favourite of all the places we have seen in this state. We headed out on Highway 550 from Montrose towards the town of Ridgway, then onto Hwy 62 also known as the San Juan Skyway/Million Dollar Road. From there it was onto a small road that Frank had discovered on a previous [View Full Entry]

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WEEK THREE: WALSENBURG , CO TO TELLURIDE, CO Tuesday, June 9 The drive to Le Veta brought us through the wide open spaces of the Front Range giving us a dramatic view of the snow covered Spanish Peaks and the Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness Area. To the north and west were the Sangre de Cristo Mountains . The snow still clung to these mountain peaks surrounding this lovely valley giving us a wonderful taste of what’s to come.   We followed the precise directions up to Valley Winds, Marta and Dave’s llama ranch in the mountains outside the charming lit [View Full Entry]

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KELLEY AND DAVE’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE The Big Trip West…Notes From the road: WEEK SIX. Thursday, June 26. We ate our breakfast on the balcony of our room overlooking 5th street while listening to the insistent whistle of the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train calling passengers to board for the 3 ½ hour ride to Silverton. Large, billowing black clouds of smoke marked the progress of the train as it headed north along the Animas River toward Silverton. There was a metallic taste to the air that landed on the tongue and the soot and smell permeat [View Full Entry]

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Wowo, it’s been quite a string of no blogging. We did a few sold-out shows in Logan, UT, which was great. We played at a university theater, I think, and it was beautiful. The crew and venue were fantastic and just on top of life in general. During the second show, after the video, Sarah was supposed to call cues. She didn’t. My thoughts: Is she dead? If she’s dead, I can’t go check on her for like 4 songs… I’m sure I could call my cues and video cues, but I’m getting nervous. Anyway, turns out her microphone button was [View Full Entry]

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So, remember how we said that this was our great adventure...well the real adventure started on Saturday, when we left the Great Sand Dunes. We headed north, went through Creede, an old mining town, and wanted to take "Highway 110" for the 31 miles from Lake City to Silverton, as it would cut about 100 miles off of our trip. It started out fine, albeit a little surprising, as the road was dirt. We should have known. It gradually got steeper, and narrower, and we eventually passed a sign stating "No campers or trailers past this point. No winter maintenance." We [View Full Entry]

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It's been five months since we returned from our two-year-long, 15-country adventure. Within days of our return, reverse culture shock quickly ceded to the bliss of hot showers, comfortable beds, home cooking, and washing machines. After 23 months of laundering clothes by hand in freezing water followed by mosquito-ridden nights on bug-infested beds, America seems truly luxurious. We've been taking advantage of our respective parents' hospitality, staying first with Randy's mom in northern California, and then with Jenny's folks in southwestern Colorado. Spending two years around the Equat [View Full Entry]

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My top 3 vacations were: 1. Telluride, CO 2. Siolim, Goa 3. Chail, Shimla Telluride, CO: We drove to Telluride from Phoenix first week of October. Ideally, this is not a journey you want to drive. It goes through the infamous highway 666 in the Navajo ntion. And as luck would have it, we ran into car trouble in the middle of the desert. The drive took us through Tuba - an interesting place with a lot of pre-historic sites, including a dinosaurs foot print. Our car trouble saw us stop over at Farmington. Farmington on a Saturday evening is rather [View Full Entry]

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Hey Guys, Hopes you are all doing good! Currently writing this to my own email to add to my travelblog later as the travelblog website is down as it has been for ages! Gash hey! I shall add this and a previous blog update to it when its back up! Last update was at Sante Fe - that evening we had some Southwestern cuisine at a restaurant called "The Shed" - I had an enchilades and taco plate and this stuff was hot hot hot! This place also rumoured to be the home of margaritas - dont know how true that [View Full Entry]

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...weeeelllll....not EXACTLY - it was more of a "went to Heaven, skied like Hell" (sorry, Nat!)!!!.... To put a label on the first stop of my adventure - I'd describe it as an overall magical experience! Yes - I know - that's a pretty lofty title for ANY experience, but hopefully I'll be able to convey - even a little bit - of just how great the trip was... ...for those who don't know anything about Telluride - it's a small, former mining / prostitution station (so I'm told) with a population of about 4000 in 1900 and 2200 in 2007. [View Full Entry]

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There we are... MARRIED!!! and I am officially Mrs Adam George... So, on the morning of the wedding, we still had no idea where it was all going to happen... the night before, we were hit by a major snow storm. as we had planned on doing it outdoors and had no plan B, we were all a little concerned as to where it was all going to happen. We woke up in the morning and my mum and I went to the hair stylist and make-up stylist to get me all pretty. This happened at the Peaks resort in Telluride. [View Full Entry]

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