mountain climbin’ tomorrow!

July 2, 2010 in Uncategorized

soooooooooo excited!

We’ve been in Colorful Colorado for a brilliant four days now.  I’ve fallen in love with this place.  The sky is always changing into an equally intriguing work of art. The people in Denver and Boulder seem to have a common goal in mind, whereas some of the other large cities held a combative tension amongst social groups.  The Coalition for Affordable Housing put on an incredible event for us where we got to ride the Denver B-Cycle bikes (largest bike share in U.S.  - started with 400) around town and learned about Denver’s ten year plan to end homelessness.  awesome.

A coolio photographer named Efrain Cruz has a studio above our host church in Denver.  He came down to check us out and generously offered a photo shoot!  ahhh!   http://gallery.me.com/photogs#100392&view=grid&bgcolor=black&sel=324

So there are those!  That was so awesome of him to give us  6 hours of his time for that.  It only emboldens my love for Colorado.  That, of course, and all the bike lanes.

MOUNTAINS TOMORROW.  holy goodness.  good.  ness.  ah!  it’s suppose to be a 6 hour climb to Estes Park and a 45 minute descent.  sweet!

you keep readin, i’ll keep climbin

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4 Replies

  1. Heidi Berge

    July 2, 2010 at 10:34 pm

    I LOVE the photos! How clever of him to take one through the bike spokes! Colorado is nice… Glad you got to see Aunt Pam and Uncle John. Please don’t fall TOO much in love with CO! NC misses you and so do I! Wanna hear from you after that descent please.

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  2. Kristine

    July 7, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    Those pictures are wonderful! You are getting closer to OR! Keep up the good work, be strong, ride hard and enjoy every minute of it. I just love reading your writing.

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