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Try This at Home: Volunteer with Habitat!

Because it’s still pretty chilly out, I’m not back on the WWOOF train yet. Still, I wanted to do some volunteering while I was in town, so I signed up to spend a day working with Habitat.
Volunteering is easy: you just sign up on habitat.org, show up at the build site, and they put you [...]

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Two-Wheelin in the Mile High City

This entry was delayed for a few days; it should have been posted last week. Please excuse the break.

Tuesday I had myself a Bicycle tour of downtown Denver. And I’m convinced: it’s the best way to tour this town!
Cherry Creek cuts through the city in a wide canal with bike trails on both sides. It [...]

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Good News Denver!

First, an important note: I saw my first muskrat today! Here he is:
Yeah, I didn’t lie. That’s a boring video. But it was exciting for me. I saw him frolicking around in the creek, and had time to pull my bike over and get out the camera. Just as I reached the bank, he swam [...]

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The Road to Denver

Well lookie there by gosh, I made it outta New Mexico. Not that I won’t miss the Land of Enchantment, with its austere mesas and sacred mountains, raging winds and tumbleweed pilgrimages… but spring beckons, and so does Colorado.
Cara and Morgan were headed to Denver, and I was too. We piled in the jalopy and [...]

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