Stories, photographs, travel notes, and safari reflections from Doug & Marcy

Many are chilled but few are frozen

A National Park all to Ourserlves

Traveling on the north side of 60 … It was about fourteen months ago that I watched  YouTube videos of photographer Thomas Heaton and friends describing their trip to the Canadian Rockies for winter photography.  Thomas’s enthusiasm is infectious and I longed to visit some of the places he photographed, but I just couldn’t get […]

THE NEW COZY

The Majestic B&B in Leadville, Colorado has now taken first place as the “Most Cozy” stay we have ever experienced. I won’t catalog the other great experiences we’ve had, but this one took me quite by surprise. I confess that I associated the name “Leadville” with a place that was gray, gritty and unattractive, but […]

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG …

  In anticipation of this trip, I suffered high anxiety about driving around the high mountains of Colorado in the dead of winter, but after watching the weather report, I breathed a sigh of relief and figured we had escaped any difficulties. — But the weather report was wrong. Our three-part trip featured the Rocky […]

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