I spend my day thinking about how I am going to get my American Heart Association recommended 10,000 steps completed. Teresa Martinez, the Director of Continental Divide Trail Coalition, spends hers thinking about 3100 miles of hiking and horse trail between Canada and Mexico. Here is a bit of her story. How did the Continental […]

We thought we would be clever on 4th of July weekend and go the opposite direction of the rest of Colorado – east – to Pawnee Buttes National Grasslands. Our Colorado travel bible John Fielder’s Best of Colorado recommended it as did some friends of ours. It went a bit like this: SATURDAY 11:00 AM […]

A reservoir as a lake, to someone like me from Michigan, is like a closed landfill as a mountain resort to someone from Colorado. For the better part of the 12 years living in Colorado, I regarded our reservoirs as supersized water tanks and gave them neither much attention nor respect. It was a Lake […]

You know what I love about Steamboat? It can be the lazy man’s mountain town. You can lounge in their hot springs, float down their river or cool your feet off as you admire their waterfalls. (You can also, of course, hike, bike, climb, ski and/or snowboard the mountains.) For me, Steamboat has the remote […]

Looking for the best things to do in Denver and Colorado? Check out Best Things to Do in Denver #7 or #6 or #5 or #4 or #3 or #1 for more CO love. After 12 years in Denver, I still discover places I never knew of and new corners of old favorites. Here are […]