We had a great day today! We drove into Boulder and spent the day wandering around the historic area of town. Boulder has a great pedestrian area (Pearl Street) that surrounds the courthouse and the Hotel Boulderado. We went to the Boulder Dushanbe Tea House for lunch http://www.boulderteahouse.com/. The tea house was created from 1987 -1990, by more than 40 artisans in several cities of Tajikistan. It was gifted to Boulder by the mayor of their sister city, Dushanbe, and reassembled in Boulder. We also spent some time at the great farmers market, enjoying the dog friendly atmosphere, and the calm and casual personality of the city.
In the afternoon, we drove out to Estes Park and took a little loop through Rocky Mountain National Park. It's apparently prime elk viewing time and we saw several large herds. It was just starting to snow up in the mountains . . . a little chilly for camping!
We returned to Boulder and met our friends Bill and Cathy for dinner. They took us to a great little Mexican restaurant and we had a wonderful evening with them. Then, back to our Hawthorn Suites hotel in Longmont and some prep work for the next leg of our trip. It's snowing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Yellowstone with lows at night in the 20's, so we're considering changing our travel plans for a warmer route. Moab is sounding very pleasant at the moment.
3 comments:
Lore, Brett-
Your blog is great! It's been fun to see what you've been doing on your trip across the country. Estes park is fabulous. My brother took me there a few years ago (he lives in Boulder).I love that photo of the Elk you got. Amazing!! Hope you are both well. We're about to do our first informal "winos" nite without you and it just seems wrong wrong wrong ....we miss you!
-Heather and Jim
You know you guys are on my old stomping grounds, right? (Well, sort of.) I saw my first rock concert in Boulder. My favorite radio station was 'BCO outta Boulder, and it was this small upstart station with late-night DJs who were stoned half the time. (That's not why I liked it - it was only later I figured out that's why they talked so slowly and said stupid things.) Dennis Constantine was a DJ there (and lo and behold, he's music director at KINK in PDX now). Later, I guess KBCO became a huge station, but I knew it when -- just like Estes Park, which was always a favorite, though I didn't get there often. My friend Curtis Henderson took me up there for his birthday party in the third grade ... But things are different now. That teahouse is something else.
I love Boulder and can definitely see myself living there. It has such a great vibe and the people are NICE!
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