A little Catching Up…
It has been a while since we last posted an update here... I suppose that the gradual transition to a normal life on our way through the US has made us a bit, shall we say, soft. Well, that is done now, and we will soon be transitioning this blog from our travels and adventures to the more pedestrian issues of job hunting, apartment moving and getting fat again. But in the mean time, we have nevertheless amassed a couple of experiences to write about, so here is the first of our catch-up posts: Denver!
Halloween Gorilla Run
No pumpkin carving or trick-or-treating for us this year... but one giant costume party!
Matt, his dad and I were 3 of the 1061 gorillas who took over the streets of downtown for the Denver Gorilla Run on October 31. We signed up to run the 3.5 miles (5.6 km) thinking it should be pretty easy, but it turns out that even a relatively short run can get you out of breath and make you sweat buckets if you are a gorilla - or even if you are just wearing a furry full-body suit with a plastic mask and trying to run at an altitude of 5200 feet (1600m)!
Bergen Park, Colorado
After the sun melted the 1st snow of the season in the Denver plains, we headed to the mountains for a little day hike. Reasonably small mountains, of course, just behind the foothills west of the city, and nothing but a leisurely 6 mile (10 km) stroll. We didn't want to get too crazy for our first day out...
Centennial, Colorado
Before heading out on our great Latin American adventure, we are recharging our batteries at Matt's parents' in friendly Centennial, Colorado. This is suburbia-land as it should be: big houses, strip malls, monster SUVs on wide roads, and a church or a Starbucks on every corner. The perfect place to eat too much good food, drink too much tea/coffee, watch too much tv, and get into too many political discussions about health care reform, spooky socialism, crazy religious people, store boycotts, "the Economy" and other favorites.