Archive for the 'Travel' Category

US Highway 34, revisited

Ok, so Hwy 34 doesn’t have the same ring as the distinctly American Route 66, The Pacific Coast Highway (Highway 1), or Germany’s Autobahn (or Dylan’s Highway 66 Revisited, for that matter). But I contend that it’s as beautiful as any of those other roads. I went to dinner in Grand Lake tonight with my [...]

A trip up and over the Continental Divide

I spend a lot of time in the Colorado mountains. I should probably explore places I don’t often go more, and I definitely should take my camera more places. I bought a point and shoot for this reason, carrying my DSLR around all the time has proven to be tiresome. But something with a decent [...]

Track your ski day with the Ski Tracks iPhone app

I went skiing at Vail today. It was (as usual) everything I had hoped it would be, and I even got a few knee-deep turns in my all-time favorite powder stash in the world. Here’s video of the snow, as seen from Lionshead at about 2:30pm today (along with some music I was listening to [...]

Europe: Amsterdam photos

I had been to Amsterdam once before, back in 2007. We traveled there to both visit our friend Jesse & Arden, but also to go to the Jam In The Dam to see my favorite band Yonder Mountain String Band. This time around, I had a much better idea of what the city was all [...]