Travel experiences, memories and stories about exploring this great planet of ours

Coffee Beans Clean Jeans* 23 West Northern Avenue * Pueblo, CO 81004-3109 * (719) 545-1034 * A little coffee shop meets laundromat where you can eat, drink, and enjoy free wifi while awaiting your clothes to wash and dry. With an electronic guage above the door – you can see when your laundry is done [...]

Pueblo, Colorado “Home of the Heroes”, “Steel City”, and “P-Town” are all well known names for this industrial center of the high Colorado desert and grasslands. In 2000 – Pueblo boasted of over 102,000 in population, and it has steadily grown from there. Just an hour to the south of the bustling Conservative and Military [...]

An Nam Vietnamese Restaurant 6928 Mesa Ridge Parkway Fountain, CO 80817-1533 * (719) 390-8700 * A great little hidden away Vietnamese restaurant on the outskirts of Fountain, Colorado (in a strip mall). Never too crowded, extremely friendly staff, and delicious food – and decently priced as well. The Chinese and the Vietnamese menu offerings are [...]

Me at the crash siteRoswell, New Mexicophotos ©2006 technogypsie.com It was 1947, on July 4th, when William Woody saw a brilliant object plunge to the ground from the sky. They tried to explore where they thought it came down, and was sent away by a military barricade. a NM rancher named WW “Mack” Brazel was [...]

Colorado Springs Flea Market * www.csfleamarket.com * 5225 East Platte Avenue * Colorado Springs, CO 80915-3514 * (719) 380-8599 * Sat-Sun: 7 am – 4 pm * A great place marketed to sell your household and craft goods – Colorado Springs Flea Market advertises themselves as the premiere place to host your garage sale. Every [...]

Between Time and Timbuktu – A Compilation of Plays by Kurt Vonneguthttp://www.theatredart.org * April 2 – 18th, 2010 * Osborne Theater * UCCS University Hall * 3955 Cragwood Drive * Colorado Springs, Colorado * 719-264-9476 * $10 general * $5 students * Free for UCCS Students * A fabulous theater production of the Kurt Vonnegut [...]

Bargain Mart * 3135 West Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs * 80909 * (719) 685-4500 * Bargain Mart – one of my favorite discounted groceries hosts proudly adverts claiming they are the ‘lowest priced groceries in town’ – which they are unquestionably in this town, the most affordable bargains you can find. Its because they deal [...]

Denver Art Museum http://www.denverartmuseum.org/ * 720-865-5000 * Denver Art Museum * 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy * Denver, CO 80204 A day of art all around for me as me and friends wandered into the Denver Art Museum on their ‘free day’ which is the first Saturday of the month. Being my first visit to [...]

“The Launching of Santa Christ” Artist Ron English * Saturday, April 3, 2010 * America The Beautiful Park * Colorado Springs, Colorado * Mid-morning the sunny, yet windy day at the infamous “America the Beautiful” Park in Downtown Colorado Springs saw its green dotted with jolly red creatures, elves, Easter Bunnies, and other freaky characters [...]