I have to admire all of you who can write "on the road".  My computer seems to have trouble staying on line or I'm too absorbed in what I'm seeing and doing to even remember it.  I think it's a generational thing. 
I finally got up the nerve to take a remember trip.  It's been a long...

All packed up, ready to hike the canyons with a group of friends, and snow.  May 1st.  It's Colorado.  Last Wednesday's hike was a fantasy in rock.  We found a narrow canyon we thought was named Fat Fred or maybe Slim Jim.  It's not on our maps, which made it all the more...

I've been reading blogs, enviously.  My travels are short, Lil Bit and I have been walking through the beauties of our extended backyard.  The price of gas has taken a big bite out of some of my more ambitious plans.  I am lucky that my backyard is so rich in resources.  Some days...

Some days in the valley the sun just begs me to hike rather than to ski.  This week I thought the Mesa might be too crowded due to Spring Break so I headed to the Colorado National Monument.   Lil Bit was more than happy.  In the spring it is cool enough for both of us to hike the...

Feeling almost fine I loaded my skiis and headed up the Grand Mesa to Powderhorn.  Mondays are my favorite day to ski there.  It's like my own private ski resort.  Few people are on the slopes or in the small lodge.  Those that come know each other, first names, last names are...

I can now compare a little hospital to a much bigger facility.  Not what I'd like to be doing.  I wanted to travel to my favorite ski area.  An infection set in and it was off to my more local hospital that is suppose to be superior.   I felt like a card in a deck, shuffled here...

The hospital isn't where I planned to travel.  I'm too darn healthy for this.  Usually a little twing, wait it out and I'm fine.  This little twinge just didn't go away.  A little surgery later...
Hospitals can be interesting places to visit, once you get around the smells and...

Not being totally comfortable with writing on the computer (that old) I had this all written out by hand, when misfortune hit and I didn't get it posted until now

Getting aquainted with Matador, I've found others from Colorado.  Amazing in this wide world of travelers.  Many others have...

The snow keeps coming. It caresses everything in sight.  Some cocoon.  I didn't choose Colorado for fireside dreaming, armchair traveling.  Today is prep day.  Since I've been on the road I have to take a day to get my day pack stocked.  Plenty of high caloric food, Gatorade,...

I've been browsing, trying to get a feel for this sight.  How interesting.  Maybe I'm too old to be a traveler.  No, never.  I read about someones grandmother and it clicked.  I'm not as old as she is, but I am a grandma.  Many of my travels are in the states, but I'm...