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Well, I finally ran out of clothes. Don’t worry, I chose the re-run option when this scenario happened. Now I’m searching for a laundromat in Gunnison, Colorado. Gunnison? Yep. I called an audible on this unscripted trip and chose to skip the Wet Mountain Valley in favor of taking a more western route. Today I’m…
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Sign No. 1 — Objects will fall from the sky.
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“Morning Has Broken” is playing on the sound system as I sit down to eat breakfast at a bistro in Buena Vista. It’s a unique off the wall establishment that reflects a modern hippy vibe that is popular in my generation. Indeed, this place, Mothers and Daughters Bistro and Bar, seems to be run by…
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Lunchtime, Cripple Creek. I’ve just avoided hitting about 72 senior citizens standing outside casinos. Trust me, it wasn’t easy. I’ve also inhaled a pack of cigarettes and I don’t smoke. One hundred and twenty-one years later and the vices are still hanging around boom town! So I stopped for a ham sandwich, which is good…
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Well, on every trip I have one of these — a wasted day. No, not wasted as far as activity is concerned but instead wasted in terms of emotions and brain cells. Quite frankly, neither was well used today. I’ll explain. The day started bright and early at Pueblo Lake State Park — 4:50am early.…
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It’s the end of my second day in Colorado, first full day here and it was a busy one. I went from exploring an old coal mine west of Trinidad to eating at a restaurant called Grub Steak, to museum hopping and interviewing in La Veta and Walsenburg. I learned a lot about coal mining…
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I’m sitting at the most interestingly named eatery, the “Grub Steak Cafe” in Monument Lake, CO. What’s a grub steak, you ask? Great question. I’m about to find out .. Update… The waitress did not know. She could only opine, “don’t ask.” I smell a story here … Nope. That’s my sandwich, a local take…
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Well, folks… I’ve gone runned off again. This time it’s Colorado for about a week. The summer heat got the best of me so I ran away. Such a shame. I had such a good mind but never put it to good summer use … They say that adventure is near the heart of the…
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“Churchese” — ever heard of it? It’s that special language often used among the redeemed and sometimes accompanied by a wink and a nudge. I first heard about Churchese when I started seminary, a whopping 10 years ago this fall. It basically involves using a lot of words that have primary reference to the Bible…
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I just got home from our Wednesday evening classes at church. For one month every summer my church holds arts, theology and/or lifeskills classes on Wednesday evenings. It’s a great event I get the honor of helping to plan, organize and execute. We usually have people from the community come to our facility and it’s…
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