This is the restaurant located next to the Rico Hotel. Chef O’Hara is the former Executive Sous Chef at the world famous Hotel Bel Air in Los Angeles, California, where he had the privilege of working with the world renown Wolfgang Puck. Beyond that, he is the most friendly hotel owner and operator you will …
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Today is hiking and another trip to town for coffee. It’s a long story. After the crazy hike on Monday, today was supposed to be an “easy 3”. We were toast after the first hour. The elevation wasn’t that bad, 1,300ft but about halfway up, we decided to call it a day and go into …
Today was a restful day touring the town. Yesterday, we drove through it to get to the climbing start so we thought we would rest the legs and enjoy the town. This guy was training the little dog in the town park. The dog was following every instruction and cue from his trainer. We got …
9 miles. 3500ft in Elevation climb and back down. A bunch of hours. Countless switch backs. That’s what we call a day of fun in the high country. No crossfit or long run can compare to this. It was hard. There were times I wanted to turn back. According to Stephen, I had a spell …
Up early, off to church, then back on the road. And we weren’t the only ones. The Ride the Rockies bike event was going on in Gunnison. We saw several hundred riders of all shapes, sizes, and ages sharing the road with the cars and trucks. What impressed me was the high number of retired …
We asked man on a bike riding up the mountain about a great place to get some good food without breaking the bank. He suggested Amicas. It’s a very unique pizza and brewery. You order when you walk in and then a wait person will take you to a table. They specialize in 4 main …
Our next stop is an overnight stay in Salida which is on the way to a long stay in Telluride. On this drive, all I could do was stare at the sky and land. These pictures are SOC—straight out of the camera. No cropping, contrast, photoshop, etc. Most of my pictures have very little post-processing …
1. The peace and quiet of a GREAT hotel and 1 orange. That doesn’t sound very exciting does it? Neither does altitude sickness. I woke up no less than 15 times during the night with extreme nausea and headache. We spent a lot of time at 14,000ft on Thursday and I hoped the fatigue …
The weather driving through 19 hours was uneventful except for a brief severe thunderstorm outside of Oklahoma City. I was checking the radar and it looked sketchy. I saw a distinctive hook and that usually sets off warning signals. Instead of second guessing whether to take shelter or keep driving, I sent a quick tweet …
And I’m not in Oklahoma as I stated in the last post. We left the house at 1:30 am. Stephen started driving. I took an Ambien and said nighty-night until I woke up somewhere in Arkansas. That’s how we do this. I get to miss the first 6-7 hours of driving and he gets to …
I can’t believe it’s finally here. We take one big vacation each year and it’s always been to Colorado. This year, we are spending 14 days hiking, driving, eating, running, and exploring all over the state. However, there is one thing on both of our minds. We have a “bucket list” item we want to …
One year after the storms destroyed our church building, we broke ground on our new one. Shovel-ready the way we do it in Alabama. . . immediately. This man deserves way more than he makes. Our mayor Walt Maddox. He was great before the storms. His leadership after the storms is nothing short of …
About 3 months ago, a girl in our morning CrossFit class mentioned she was working with the Junior League of Tuscaloosa on an upcoming event. She said it would be dragon boat racing. And I immediately thought of this. And this sounded like something I need to do once in my lifetime. Row a huge …
This one has nothing to do with running. Or food. Or being healthy. This is strictly life-casting. I’ve been stuck for the past few days on what to blog about and the only thing that has been on my mind in the past year and what our town has done to rebuild after last year’s …
We had a lot of fun playing in the surf and sand. Unfortunately, we did not have sunscreen. And considering that we had skin that had not seen sunlight in 10 years, we fried. At the time, we didn’t feel anything. The water and wind were cool, almost chilly. But once Stephen got in …
Whenever we travel, I like to look for farmer’s markets. I love the diversity from region to region and finding the common things among all of them. I found a lot of reviews for Palafox so we planned to stop by after a quick breakfast at Waffle House. A side story on Waffle House: It’s …
We are here!!! We rolled into Pensacola just in time to grab a sunset picture. Getting packed for the beach should be easy, right? We had food. . . . ….and that’s about all we had. When we got halfway there, we realized we had left the chairs, sunscreen, his toiletry bag, and towels at …
Although my birthday was a week ago, we are still celebrating this weekend. Friday night, we went to Stephen’s stomping ground to have birthday party for me and his mother. Then I drove to MS Saturday to see my family and a certain 19 month old monkey. Here is a brief review in pictures.
It’s only a few weeks until we attempt the 13 mile hike up the face of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. After 3 years of driving or riding the Cog Railway to the summit, we’ve made a bet with the devil that we flatlanders can hike it like normal mountain people. All it takes is a …
Well, here we go again. Tomorrow is probably the biggest strongest risk of severe weather we’ve had in my neck of the woods since April 27th. See that orange purple spot in Central Alabama. Those aren’t happy colors. The STP is “significant tornado parameter”. It’s about 45% for my area. That means I have a …