"MOOSE" Yelled a kid in our campground this morning as we were putting the last of our stuff in the car this morning. About 200 feet from our campsite two moose (meese?) were ambling through the campground. They took their sweet time moving and were munching on some small trees when we caught up with them. As soon as we got somewhat near them, they emerged from the trees and began walking, slowly, in our general direction. At that point, we began m...

Wednesday morning we got up and grabbed breakfast on the hill - the neighborhood next to University of Colorado. We saw a number of interesting characters, and sat next to a guy on his cell phone who may be related to Earl Hickey and who used the term "bad karma" at least a half dozen times in his conversation. After a walk through campus and a short visit with Robert Frost, we went up to Rocky National Park and spent the day driving the length of the...

This morning we packed up our tent earlier than we would have liked because we couldn't watch our tent get pushed around by the wind anymore (Big Bully). We had a quick drive to Fort Collins, Colorado, the home of Colorado State University. We stopped at a cafe for a Fort Collins norm, breakfast burritos. Then we walked around town and the campus. There was barely any car traffic on the city's wide streets, and it seemed that everyone was on a bike. Next, we d...