Cambria Suites Fort Collins

Ohh, Ohh Mexico! I love our Southern neighbor. I've been to border towns a few times throughout my life, but I have never seen the Caribbean. It was so wonderful and beautiful. And I will never forget it, hopefully!!

I took my 6 year old. From the airport we drove to Chichen Itza (about a two hour drive and a lot of pesos too) where we stayed at the most grorgeous hotel, the Hacienda something or other. The rooms were huge and cooled ...

We pulled out of Hart Ranch in South Dakota a couple of days early because of an anticipated cold front. We also changed the route we had planned on taking. Rather than going to Scotts Bluff, Nebraska we headed to Colorado. Strange as it may seem the weather promised to be better in the Denver area....

After about 400 miles, which is a ...

... to get out of the cab and in to my nice, airconditioned hotel room. Oops.. they couldnt actually turn on the air until my official check in time of 11:00, but they felt sorry for me and let me go lay down. A couple hours of sleep, some Pepto, and I'm good as new, and I venture out to Pratunam market. Now, this area is not for amateur shoppers...this is as hard core, pushing, shoving, bargaining as it gets. Pratunam Wholesale ...

Welcome to the first in a long series of travel blog entries! I recommend you first click on the "about this travel blog" tab above to get a synopsis of what's going on here, and then continue...

I've been in Estes Park in the beautiful Rocky Mountains for the last week preparing for the trip, and more recently, trying to get our 14 students ready to roll as well. We're set up for an amazing program that covers 3 countries ...

... requesting that he be present for an interview on the 16th at 10 a.m. This is a very good opportunity for Janis, so he had to take it. I am not sure what we will do in Denver, but once again, we will figure it out. Janis leaves tomorrow afternoon to SFO and returns back to Denver on the 17th. Hopefully when he gets back, we can make our way towards Mt. Rushmore.
We arrived in Loveland, Colorado just outside Denver ...

... a winter. I was arriving on a summer without preamble. Memory was my only gauge and it offered a mushy conglomerate of all summers in Colorado smashed into one eternal summer temperature. That was the difference in all aspects of my life. I had just arrived from a non-linear course of events. Unless I was with my close friends or family, the hassle of trying to relate was discouraging. I preferred to keep quiet. It took a couple weeks before I saw two of my closest friends ...

... of websites and makes apreadsheets. Jdad feigns napping on the sofa when she approaches him with laptop or guide book in hand. Jmom gets snippy. She explains she doesn't want to plan this herself! She wants assistance! A partnership! This is, of course, mostly a lie because Controlfreakosaurus just wants free reign to make over-the-top plans. In other words, meds would be useful right about ...

... enjoy these activities. But I now understand that I only enjoy them when I choose to do in them. When I have to I don't like it anymore.

Anyway, since graduating I've been suffering from a sort of intellectual hangover. Towards the end of school, I was thinking so hard that it actually hurt sometimes. They made me read and write a lot. So the idea of writing in my travel blog seemed more chore, less happy hobby. And that's why I'm starting the stupid thing four months late ...

As we headed closer to Ft Collins (6.5 hr drive) the rain turned into snow. We stayed with Good Andy (Harry Potter) who had other guests staying too: Susie and James. We went into town to watch yet another basketball game and ended up getting really drunk and silly. Andy likes to wrestle when he's drunk and tried to take down everyone. Next morning we went out for a huge breakfast and got into a couple of snowball fights. Tonight we will BBQ and stay out of the snow!

... What do you think when you see someone going around the garbage cans looking for bottles and cans. Since I was down to about $5 and not sure when my check would arrive I became one of those persons. Except it was different then. Instead of ten cents a can you sold the aluminum by weight, much less of a return. I never saw much reason for a can law since all the cans were ...