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

After flying well over a million miles in my business and leisure travel, I have seen my share of unusual behavior on the plane. Here are some, and I hope it does not gross you out. Probably the worst behavior I have ever experienced first hand was an air marshal sitting in First Class with us. He proceeded to tell the flight attendant and pilot he was an air marshal, showed his ID, and told them he was armed. He started drinking hard liquor as soon as we got airborne. The lovely flight attendant finally had to cut him off after three drinks, since he was drunk, making passes toward her, and barely able to speak. Can you imagine if we really needed him to perform his job on that flight? I am certain he was ... read more

This is a post aimed at people considering vacationing to the Vail Valley, namely the resort towns of Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone and Beaver Creek. It’s also going to provide some useful information to travelers heading up to Aspen. You see, for as long as I can remember, the best way to access these resort towns if you were flying in from out of state (or out of country), was to fly into Denver International (DIA) and then make ground transportation arrangements (shuttle service, car rental or bus) to continue the journey into the Rockies. While there was an alternative option available with url=https://www.google.com/search?q=eagle+county+regional+airport&oq=eagle+county+regional+airport&rldimm=9895711538060316891&rlst=f#rlfi=hd:;si:857315950850811601Eagle County Airport (EGE) , the logistics involved with this smaller regional airport just made it an unrealistic choice ... read more

Not much to blog about here either. The entire day was spent taking back the rental car and changing our flight. For the last 24 hours United kept texting and e-mailing that severe weather was causing flight delays and cancelations. So, we just decided to go to the airport (had to take the car there anyway) and see if we could get a different flight. It was a zoo, lines everywhere, the departure board was flashing red with tons of cancelled flights (covid and weather related) we stood in the customer service line for 90 minutes, but we did get a flight change. Have to spent another night in Denver, but we got a much better flight directly to Boston. We just need to take car service from Logan airport back to Providence. This was basically ... read more

It has been 10 1/2 years since "the big trip" as we call our previous year long jaunt. We have traveled since then but never for more than three weeks. But we are now 50-somethings, not 40-somethings, and my Parkinson's Disease continues to increase its hold on my life. I only have a few things left on my bucket list so we decided to attempt to cross off the most difficult...the Green Flash. For those who have never heard of it, the green flash occurs right at sunset (or sunrise), almost always over the ocean and only when the sky is perfectly clear, or so I hear. It is an instance of bright jade green right at the horizon. The only person who has told me they have seen it said they saw it in the ... read more

Highlights from this week: Sunday: Great Sand Dunes National Park. This was my 7th National park since I started on my mission to visit them all. The park has the tallest Sand Dunes in North America at 750 feet. Being the tallest Sand Dunes in North America isn't much though... I saw taller dunes when I was in Australia and I didn't even see the tallest dunes on that continent! There's not much to the actual park besides the park. The enjoyable part is seeing the abrupt change from mountains to sand. It would definitely be really interesting to see it in the Winter when the mountains are snow capped or in the Spring/Early summer when the river is flowing from snow melt. Sand dunes are always extremely windy. I went home with marks on my ... read more