Well folks, you read it here first. We are heading home. Yes, we are going to skip Yellowstone and Grand Tetons. We will certainly go to see them on another trip. However, we are just ready to head home. It has been wonderful, and we have been wandering for 40 days (with lots of others who have wandered 40 days to campare with…).
We don’t have to be gone the full 50 – we just allowed ourselves that time. Theo and I are both “done”.
So, we will drive through the middle of Colorado, past Steamboat Springs and Dinosaur National Monument and then Flaming Gorge in Utah. We will pick up 84 right outside Idaho, and take that right to Portland.
We should be back on Wednesday. See you then!
I will post a few posts that have been published yet and some additional observations from the road.
It has been a grand ride!
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(pictures added to this post soon)
We are back in south Boulder, tucked up against the Flatirons and Devils Thumb. It is beautiful and sunny here. In fact, it is always beautiful and sunny here. You can rely on it being beautiful and sunny. That is one of the things I’d forgotten about Colorado. It has been nice being here and remembering the things that informed me about the world when I was in my early 20’s. Boulder is an idilic community in many ways. I had been told that it is very crowded, traffic was bad, it had lost is good sense. What I see is that it has grown and become more dense (like virtually any other town that has experienced growth in the past several decades) and it is still a great community.
We have had a really nice few days. After arriving from NYC, Theo was able to attend a YMCA day camp for a couple of days and he got in some much needed time playing with other kids (and getting a break from me). He was a happy camper! He went swimming at the Eldorado Springs pool, and hiking in the foothills among a lot of other playing.
I spent a couple of much needed days on my own. Susan and I went down to Denver and looked around at the new development in the railroad station area, had a nice lunch out and just poodled around. Then I spent a day on my own in Boulder and ran errand and saw a friend form Portland (hi Peggy!).
It has been a relaxed few days. We shared some great meals (Susan is my favorite person in the world to cook with) with lots of veggies from Susan and Michele’s garden, made fresh corn tamales, went swimming, saw “Space Chimps,” got to see Susan’s sons, Isaac and Cyrus (and their girlfriends), went to the farmers market (and got some peaches form the west Slope of Colorado – best peaches in the world), and had breakfast at a beautiful tea house.
Ah, Boulder. The land of plenty….
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