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Mountain Magic, Winter Park CO

Mountain Magic, Winter Park CO

A rocky mountain ski trip is winter magic: snow-capped views above 10,000 feet, delightful apres-ski toasts with ski buddies, ripping a top-to-bottom run on packed powder, and a soak in the slope-side condo's hot tub…. The winter magic will dazzle you; a few weeks...

Give the Gift of Travel

Give the Gift of Travel

If you're like me, you're already scheming and planning for 2024 travel. And, since the holiday season is upon us, let's skip more stuff and give the gift of travel instead. What's on our 2024 wish list? Montana, Park City, Quebec, and of course a return to NW...

Fall MTB Frisco, CO

Fall MTB Frisco, CO

Mountain biking is better…when you are actually in the mountains! The biking we do at home in Michigan, at sea level, on dirt trails with no rocks, on gently rolling hills, I pondered. Is that really mountain biking? Of course, the genre encompasses a wide range of...

Colorado Family

Colorado Family

Families evolve and go through changes. I have an ex husband. I didn’t keep the last name but thankfully kept the sisters. Though we do not see each other very often, the sister-in-law relationship has remained in tact. I recently reunited with two of the Orr sisters,...

Breck Highlights

Breck Highlights

Dec. 26, 2013 – It had been dumping snow in west Michigan the last several days so I assumed much the same in the mountains of Colorado. Packing my ski bag, I imagined being picked up by a CME shuttle driver, “It’s been pukin’ snow at Breck bro…you’re gonna have some...