In early September of 2011, I went on a day trip to one of the most interesting (and touristy) historic areas in Colorado: the Cripple Creek Mining District. This mining district has produced more gold than any other Colorado mining district. And last I knew, … Continue reading Cripple Creek Mining District (September 2011)
Welcome, ghost town fans! For this week’s ThrowBack Thursday, we visit Silver Creek, Colorado. Silver Creek was a short-lived mining camp near Georgetown, and it’s definitely one of Colorado’s lesser known ghost towns. In researching for today’s post, I consulted the two Colorado ghost town … Continue reading Silver Creek, Colorado (Sept 2011 and July 2012)
I recently bought a huge white minivan, an “upgrade” from my usual 4-door sedan. There were two main reasons for this. One was that Parkinson’s was sometimes making it difficult to get in and out of my last sedan. The other was that I never … Continue reading Prequel to Traveling with a Great Pyrenees
If you’ve ever been to downtown Golden, Colorado, the picture above probably seems familiar. If you’ve ever lived in the area, you probably know that you’re looking at Castle Rock, and that it projects off a “corner” of South Table Mountain. Yes, I know there … Continue reading Golden’s Castle Rock (January 2012)
Quite some time ago, I determined that I would not take my Great Pyrenees pooch (Bear) with me on my travels. The main problem is that he barks ALOT when he’s guarding his “den”. I tried taking him to an air-bnb for a weekend, to … Continue reading Traveling with a Great Pyrenees
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a ThrowBack Thursday around here. What say we do one right about now? Well, all right then! Let us voyage back twelve years, to early March of 2012, to a place on the eastern edge of Boulder, … Continue reading Sawhill Ponds (March 2012)
It’s been a whole week since I got home, and here, finally, is the last chapter of My Nevada Experience. We begin on Day 15 at the National Automobile Museum. And y’know, it’s places like this that make me re-consider my personal no-cameras-in-museums policy – … Continue reading Nevada 2024 Trip Report (the last two days)
Day 12: On this day, I went to the Nevada Railroad Museum. I wanted to see ONE thing here, as I had read a little about that one thing and was highly intrigued by it. That one thing was their McKeen Motor Car. The description … Continue reading Nevada 2024 Trip Report (Days 12 through 14)
Today is the big day, the one I’ve been waiting for. The day I drive “the loneliest road in America”, the stretch of U.S. Highway 50 that crosses northern Nevada. Ironically, this wasn’t a planned part of the trip. I just needed to get from … Continue reading Nevada 2024 Trip Report (Day 11)
If you are seeing this message, I am dead. Or maybe just lazy. Whichever you would consider to be an appropriate excuse for going nearly a week without posting when there is active travel to tell you about. Day 9: At the end of my … Continue reading Nevada 2024 Trip Report (Days 9 and 10)
Voyages with Parkinson's 