Blogs from Denver, Colorado, United States, North America - page 3

It's May 6, 2011, and more than three years since we had visited our son, Evan, in Colorado. With a new apartment, a great job with a major bike rack company, and a new girlfriend, we were soooo anxious to see him! We’d sacrificed some sleep to drive to the Ft. Myers airport at 3 AM and by the time we landed in Denver, we were famished! Evan drove us to Boulder in his new Suburu, compliments of his employer. Traffic was horrendous: graduation day at Colorado University! But there were tables at the Walnut Brewery as well as some terrific steaks for the guys and a wonderful chicken salad for me. After this great repast, we walked off the calories on the Boulder Creek Path, through Eben G. Fine Park, and then back to Pearl ... read more

Geo: 39.74, -104.992A Man, a Plan, a Canal...PANAMAIt is 20 some degrees in Denver and snow is on its way. It's time to get out of Dodge! Though, truth be told, we've had this trip planned for over a year and the time has finally arrived. Jeff and I, and our wonderful friends, Eve and Leroy Measner, Mary Linscome and Trish Nelson (who is Eve's sister) are all taking a 15-day cruise from Los Angeles, CA through the Panama Canal and ending in Fort Lauderdale, FL. What a great way to start the new year!As an example of our semi-lack of coordination, the six of us are on four different flights, but five of us (Mary, Eve and Leroy and Jeff and I) arrive at LAX about 30 minutes apart - that's the plan anyway. Trish ... read more

Since I was too lazy and also travelling in order to both study and visit friends I did not keep my travel diary as I usually do. Therefore this blog post will not be as useful as usually for other travellers as I have not stayed at hostels or travelled as I usually would. It will be a more reflective blog post for anyone interested in reading about my travel and reflections. This whole travel got planned and re-planned a few times. It ended up with me spending the first weekend, Friday-Monday in Denver. I arrived Friday evening at the airport and took and Uber to my couchsurfing spot in Thornton. It is a bit outside the city, but it was so worth it to go out there! I got a hughe room with its own ... read more

Bonjour à tous, J'ai enfin fait une bonne nuit, peut être que quelqu'un sait si le fait de dormir aux environs de 2500 m et plus, depuis plus d'une semaine, à une incidense sur la sommeil. Denver est à 1610m, et c'est peut être la raison du nuit meilleure. Denver, Capitale du Colorado, forme avec Aurora et Boulder une agglomération de près de 3 millions d'habitants. C'est la plus grosse agglomération dans un rayon de 1000 km, ce qui en fait naturellement un pôle logistique et financier important. Dans une région possédant la quasi-totalité des mines d'uranium des US, la moitié du charbon, de grosses réserves de gaz, du pétrole, la ville est devenue une des capitales de l'énergie. Elle profite également des retombées touristiques des sports d'hiver. Son aéroport est le 4 ème des US. ... read more

Right, so... last night was fun haha. Word to the wise, Albuquerque's Greyhound station is an odd, odd place. Look at yesterday's entry if you're interested - happy to say I finally did get on my bus and made it to Denver this morning. Although I'm sure I will look back on it and laugh (ok I already find some of them funny, my orange juggler in particular), I very much need to remind myself next trip that overnight bussing in the US is a grave error haha. Anyway. I dropped luggage off at the hostel and ventured out in search of something with green chilli on it - a must have in this area, apparently. The breakfast diner next door didn't disappoint! Holy massive burrito of cheesy, eggy, chilli goodness! The chilli has pork in ... read more