Holiday Inn Summit County/Frisco, Co

... vinna mot killarna tills slutet när vi av ett litet litet misstag fick i 8:an!

På torsdagen som var självaste Thanksgiving blev vi (liksom alla andra i byn) inbjudna till brandstationen där kommunens invånare bjöd på den klassiska måltiden. Personalen bestod av frivilliga från kyrkan, banken och andra ställen. Gästerna var byns personal, invånare och turister som vi. Precis som att någon donerat maten donerade vi i ...

... Dagen var i lördags (igår), som började redan på fredagskvällen då vi hela familjen hängde på REIs flagship store (en suverän butik för allt outdoor liv) nere i stan. Ola behövde telemarksskidor (hade med sig telemarkspjäxor och slalomskidor från Sverige, ingen bra kombination) och jag behövde en hjälm. Kom hem med det och massor med skidstrumpor. Fick också provat senaste modellen av telispjäxor, och efter det är jag helt säker på vad jag önskar mig ...

... behind tomorrow and get back to van living. We are heading into Boulder in the morning to do some exploring and hit the first brewery in Colorado, for our stately brewery visit. From there were going to drive to northern Colorado and camp it up and at one of trusty KOA's making us that much closer to South Dakota.

Till next time,

The Happy Chappy Couple

... pretty close to University of Denver in the cutest little bungalow house. It was a very charming pad and her backyard was so nice, complete with a bad ass brick patio and rose garden! She made us a wonderful salad and this light pasta dish, and you know I had to accept her offer of beer. We were all exhaused by the time we got there but Sue’s upbeat personality woke us up quite well. We stayed for a couple hours and headed back to Bern’s.

Mt. Evans, Colorado, United States kimmytravels

... to mash into the front of your boots, it’s here that I wonder why the f*&^^ we didn’t park at the top of the road. Of course as we walk down the road we are passed by no less than 10 or 12 vehicles driving to the top, oh and the F(*&^) Marmots won’t shut up, I get it we are dumb ass hikers do they really have to rub it in. So it ends with a short ride back to Debs plush Rockefeller cabin where I act like I could do another peak but my ...

... we parked our bikes and took shelter. Once it settled down we continued on our ride and shortly reached the Gore Creek Path.

This whole path rode us by beautifully gorgeous homes owned by the rich and famous...sadly we didn't have any celebrity sightings because that would have been fun! The path drops you off right in the Vail Village where we stopped for a ...

We spent the rest of the afternoon/evening exploring the shops in the Vail Village-which is an adorable German architecture looking resort town. We had dinner at Up The Creek
which is more of an "up-scale" restaurant. It was a little harder to find as it was set off of the main road directly on the creek.

I'm not the most adventuresome eater, so there were limited items on the ...

This year we skied for two weeks and both spring skiing and some good snow. We skied Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail, and Arapahoe Basin. One day Peter and Ron took the day off and went fly fishing with a guide in Silverthorne. It was cold and they caught one fish but they still had a good time. Mike and Laurie joined us for a couple of days which was great!

... back the way I came and to take the left at the first crossroad. I walked on the trail about 20 minutes and came to the same steep and rocky trail I had seen before. From there, the trail became wide and very steep as I went further up. At that point on, the trail became so steep that I couldn't I couldn't go very far without being so out of breath I had to stop. I made it about a mile up the trail and turned back. The trail ended up back at ...

... wall. That was it. But the room was clean, and afflicted with no rancorous odor upon first entry. Then I drew the curtains from the window and my displeasure with the room melted at the sight of what stretched into the distance-mountains, snow covered, brimming over twelve thousand feet. That and those uniform brown peaked buildings of the villages squatting below the grandeur. The altitude had effected me more than I thought it would. Lugging bags around looking for elevators had ...