Rochester Hotel Durango

... br><br>It seems so many experiences that I have these days I start to wonder how I can continue to proliferate a more peaceful world around me. I go to National Parks and I hear people talk about is wars in current times or in history. It seems most of human history ncludes a consistent parade of wars to count the years by. Even driving through a national Park seems to be pretty violent anymore. <br><br>Soon we will ...

... mountain town that has grown because of the railroad that stops here. We met some lovely people from New Mexico, Lisa and Brad, who camped next to us with their dog and 2 cats. Tomorrow we are headed North along a scenic route through the San Juan National Forest. RVing is the best.<br>

Yay! Tonight we had our first show (1 of 2) in Durango, CO and it went phenomenal! Everyone kept talking about how "it' happened. For those of you that have been involved with theatre before, then you know that "it" is. During each of our songs tonight there was an ephemeral moment, a moment in which we all felt the goosebumps and had to blink back tears. We felt like the audience could really understand our message and music. We touched lives tonight ...

... how my parents surprised me by coming to our first show in Denver? <br><br>Well, it wouldn't be the full (original) Luebke family without my awesome sister, Alyson!<br><br>She flew from Minnesota last Saturday to see the show in Aspen! I was so excited to see her! It meant a lot to me that she came, especially since her Aspen stay lasted less than 12 hours as she was on a plane back to Minnesota before 6:00 a.m. the next morning.<br><br>Can you say best ...

Hello from Durango, Colorado!<br><br>My parents and I had a tearful good-bye before leaving Carbondale, CO this morning. Our second bus had yet to arrive so my Dad went to go and get some coffee at a nearby coffee shop. I was among 15-20 people waiting for the second bus to arrive because there was no room on the first bus for our large luggage. As soon as Dad left, the second bus showed up. I became hysterical, thinking that I wouldn't ...

Well only 12 days left now. Not too much left to do on the pre-depture checklist left to do. To tell you the truth, it might not be soon enough. I am ready for a change and life in this small mountain town of the US is so boring now. Just the same old humdrum routine of work and days off. This being the reason I went to college, to avoid getting stuck in that cycle. Don't get me wrong, I ...

... ricocheted off the walls of the bowl, appeared to dissipate, then echoed back off the walls of the adjacent rifts after delays of more than 5 seconds. No wonder they were an hour late. <br><br>Unfortunately, the camera battery was charging back at the house. While it was nice to have a light load, the cell phone camera doesn't produce great shots. Better than nothing though.

Day 54 - Leaving Santa Fe, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Bandelier NM, Los Alamos NL, Durango CO - August 13, 2008 - Wednesday Packed up. Drove to the San Ildefonso Pueblo. Very interesting. We registered at the Visitor Center and were given a map of the pueblo. There were specific places we were allowed, and not allowed, to go. San Ildefonso is famous for their black-on-black pottery. We stopped in one pottery ...

Lazy start to the day after a good nights sleep - we got good coffee and cinnamon bun in the lobby and headed off west on 160 to Mesa Verde in sunny weather and (as usual excellent pine mountain scenery). We reached the turn for the National Park and drove this road up the mountain somewhat like the east entrance to Yosemite (i.e. a road cut into the side of the mountain). Rounding a bend just before Knifes Edge you come across this aeroplane-like view of ...

... afford to drive a car. An astounding proportion cannot even buy health insurance. But by noticing these things, and only these things, the writer displayed that he, too, is a materialist. He ends by saying he sees America through the eyes of an outsider nowadays, "often great, but needlessly selfish," and recommends that we "plot a new course-as global citizens-wherein we learn to share." But that's all he sees. It's cliché to criticize Americans in terms of consumption; it ...