This year’s garden wasn’t perfect, by any means, but the hot peppers- all of them in pots on the front patio of the Elkhorn Inn this year- did great! When October arrived, and frost was imminent, with the pepper plants Read more…
For several days on our Road Trip home to West Virginia we’d been having trouble finding Hilton brand hotels (that we could pay for with our HH points) that had an electric outlet outside for our freezer full of elk Read more…
The next day (12/13/20) of our 3-week Road Trip from West Virginia to Colorado and back, we went to the National Museum of WWII Aviation: https://www.worldwariiaviation.org/ in Colorado Springs, which I only learned about thanks to a hotel rack card, Read more…
The other night I made the #Kansas Cocktail that was created for me by the owner of Casey’s Cowtown Steakhouse and Club in Dodge City, Kansas, with those AbFab, historic “Prickly Ash Bitters” from Boot Hill Distillery! When we arrived Read more…
Our freezer full of Yum-O elk, on December 8 we started our road trip back home to West Virginia, seeing a lot of Very beautiful Colorado countryside: We stopped first at Palisade (remember- I made Dan promise…), so we could Read more…
Today (12/11/20), on our wonderful 3-week long Road Trip from WV to Colorado and back, was Gold Mine Day, and we drove to the historic (since 1875!) and operational Phoenix Gold Mine: https://www.phoenixgoldmine.com/, where we got a tour of the Read more…
Our next stop on our Road Trip back home to West Virginia was infamous Dodge City, Kansas, where we checked into the Dodge City Hampton Inn https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/ddctyhx-hampton-suites-dodge-city/, again on our Hilton Honors points 🙂 When we asked about nearby restaurants, Read more…
NOTE: This is a post about elk hunting, and how we got our freezer full of YUM-O elk meat (which was not connected to the hunt, BTW…), and has photos of all that entailed. Remember that the meat you eat Read more…
The next morning of our Road Trip from West Virginia to Colorado (12/2), we happily left Denver as early as possible (Hotel Teatro’s “Nickel” restaurant being closed, of course), and drove west towards Grand Junction. Within minutes of leaving Denver Read more…
The fourth day (12/1/2020) of our Road Trip from West Virginia to Meeker, Colorado to elk hunt, found us in Denver, which I had been quite looking forward to, having heard for years what a great city it was, with Read more…