Best way to fix a rainy day? Beer tourism. (Taken with Instagram at Starr Hill Brewery)
Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from A.D. 600 to 1300. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
Photo: Andrew Kotsopey, National Park Service
Climbed those ladders more than once as a kid.
I suspect that Susan’s skin was like the river, chilled by gusts of uncertainty, pebbled with the gooseflesh of anticipation. She knew his intensions; he had warned her.
— Wallace Stegner could write a sentence.
I wouldn’t mind living in Marjorie Merriweather Post’s kitchen. This is a third of it. I suspect her kegerator was removed before they opened the house to the public.
Teddy: You guys can go around if you want to. I’m crossing here. And while you guys are dragging your candy asses halfway across the state and back, I’ll be waiting for you on the other side, relaxing with my thoughts.
The train trestle in this scene is being converted to a walking/biking trail in northeast California.



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