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August 2015

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Blue Highways and Back Roads

When I was a kid, my mom gave me a book called Blue Highways written by William Least Heat Moon.  The story detailed an around the country road trip the author embarked on over the course of a year driving a pickup truck retrofitted with a camper shell, traveling the “Blue Highways.”…

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Colorado Olympics?

I read in horror that the Winter Olympics for 2022 had been awarded to no other than Beijing, China.  Say what?  Didn’t they just have an Olympics — a Summer Olympics?  Does it even snow in Beijing?  Does anyone even care if it snows, or recreate on snow in any…

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Narrow Gauge Railroads

After my latest post about The Switzerland Trail, several people asked questions about narrow gauge railroads, so I thought I’d write an “add-on” post about narrow gauge railroads and their ties (no pun  intended) to Colorado.  There are a lot of scenic excursion type railroads still operating around the state of…

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