Blogs from Denver, Colorado, United States, North America - page 16

Geo: 39.7437, -104.979"Off I go!"Pretty lame for the title of my first blog entry. I could have defaulted to the cliche "every journey begins with a single footstep" or something along those lines. I could fall back on my programming experience and go with "Hello, world". Or maybe, just "Wwweeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!"Eh. Spent last night in the bed of truck (might as well get used to it) outside the home of some good friends. Texted her at 6:50 am: "You guys up?" "I am. Are you in your truck?" "Yep! Be right in. :)"But you probably don't really care. The last thing I want this blog to be is a pre-pubescent diary. "And today, I did this, and this, and this, and ate this, and then saw this..." Of course, there will be some of that. I want ... read more

This is a test of our blog site where we hope to have updates of our family trip to New Zealand & Australia. We take off tomorrow and will likely start by getting a rental car at LAX and going to the beach for 3-4 hours to get some exercise in prior to sitting on the long flight to Auckland The pictures above were taken after the Neal Morse Band show in Denver on May 25th. The band lead by Prog Rock genius Neal Morse who was backed by Randy George on the bass and the amazing Mike Portnoy on drums. They had an excellent father-son duet on guitar (the father also played violin & flute, the son played cello and sang some back-up as well), two other keyboard players, a saxophone player/percussionist and a guest ... read more

We are in the land of Dorothy , driving across Kansas , pushing the dodge to all its limits, we thought it was time to fill you in on the last few months. In February we said goodbye to Andrea, Ken and Mel as they went across to Vancouver by train, as Callan missed his brother so much he decided to stay in Banff, work the second half of the winter and finish our road trip with us. He moved into the Grizzly house into the main suit, the upstairs empty laundry room, which was a total size of 6ft by 8ft, and as we found out the average jail cell is 6ft by 10ft, definitely luxury and comfort for Cal over the next 2 months. Cal also snapped up a job at Mt Norquay working ... read more

I have two and a half weeks left in Denver, and than the journey begins... kind of! I'm spending a week with dad and friends in Orange County before the big day (May 24th). Preparations are in full swing! Sent the fundraising letter out today; Hep A and Hep B shots tomorrow morning; Yellow Fever and Typhoid vaccinations Tuesday.. all while its crazy month at work and finals at school! The anticipation is killing me, CAN'T HARDLY WAIT!... read more

I will summarise today quickly for you... shower breakfast in 'The Original Pancake House' - overwhelmingly huge portions that put me off breakfast!! Not sure why they feel the need to add home fries to everything! REI is like a massive Blacks which sells everything outdoorsy. We spent a good two hours in there and I ended up with a new coat, courtesy of Jon. downtown - I really like it. It is small but perfectly formed! Got a free mall ride there (trams that stop at every junction) Cheesecake Factory - had a nibble for lunch and one of their infamous passion fruit mojitos. Mile High point - we walked the rest of downtown to the civic hall, where we reached the mile high point of Denver. We randomly saw a red squirrel munching on ... read more