Robin McLean

STILLWATER LAKE TO CARP LAKE, COLORADO:

34 to 40 to I70 past Breckenridge, Vail, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain. Hung a left at Glenwood Springs in search of the Avalanche Creek Campground for lunch but it was lost and we never found it. Kept going off the beaten path through Marble, Redstone, Hotchkiss, Orchard City, Cedaredge to Grand Mesa National Forest where there are lots of bugs.

Camping was $8 with a senior NPS pass (go GB) and $16 if you are young and poor.

The fish were thick -- no gear. Read More 

JUST LEFT THE KOA KAMPGROUND IN ELY, NEVADA.

WE ARE PUSHING ON TO GREENER PASTURES (OTHER CAMPGROUNDS) IN AUSTIN, 147 MILES WEST.

WHY?

1. WE JUST GAINED ONE HOUR AT THE NEVADA BORDER -- PACIFIC TIME.

2. WE HAVE ALL HAD SHOWERS. (KOA, WE LOVE YOU). NOW HAVE A NEW MORE POSITIVE (HORSE TO BARN) STATE OF MIND.

3. CARLYN NEEDS TO GET TO CALIFORNIA. SHE CAN SMELL IT.

CHECK OUT CARLYN'S INTRAGRAM PAGE reptilehousebook... IT'S  Read More 

BOULDER COLORADO: After much fuss, planning and speculation, the Sindwinder team has just doubled in size with the delivery and pick up of these two fine literary children to and from the Denver International Airport.

The older one has a driver's license. They both have debit cards.

They will stay on the tour till Seattle.

They will not spend all their money in Boulder since we are leaving today after a wonderful night with Jodie Hoke and Carol Keeley and they new friends last night at the Boulder Bookstore.

We are looking at Maps.

We are reading for the Rockies. Next stops:

June 30, BOOKS INC, Mountain View, CA. with Robert Thomas.
July 1, BOOK PASSAGE, San Francisco, CA (Ferry Building Store), 6 pm.
July 3, 2015 COPPERFIELDS, Healdsburg, CA, 7 pm. Read More 

READ THIS REVIEW.

COLORADO REVIEW and the CENTER FOR LITERARY PUBLISHING

Thanks to Jeremy Griffin who read RH and wrote the review.

THEY ALL SAY THEY LIKE IT

MORE SOON.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, COLORADO:

On the last morning in Boulder I followed
a raccoon
it waddled down Pearl.
I though she would run into the street.
She dropped into the sewer.

The car was a tight squeeze - Read More 

1. Take close up shots of the Cosmonaut.

2. Eat sweet potato and pineapple pancakes with the Cosmonaut.

3. Walk around lakes and pet dogs, wonder if your dog will remember you or accept the Cosmonaut.

4. Discuss Cajun food with sales clerk in shoe store who does not ask about the Cosmonaut.

5. Answer questions about the Cosmonaut asked by eager strangers at Tea Rooms with 103 teas on the menu.

7. Drink water to fend of elevation sickness since Boulder is at 5363 feet, which is nothing for Cosmonauts.

8. Discuss the gender of the Cosmonaut with trusted companions, and how the gender of the Cosmonaut was discovered with same.

9. Tour the area, assess recent flood damage, waves at friendly people in cottages, pass shops called "The Fit Shall Inherit" which will include any Cosmonaut.

10. Cruise up to the Continental Divide with the Cosmonaut.

10. Get out of the big city, go Louisville in the rain for brussel sprout salad and meet with small children interested in jet packs, Darth Vader and Cosmonauts.

10. 10. Pick up teenage relatives at the airport who are happy to accept with the Cosmonaut and the illegal AirB&B we're camped out in.

See the Cosmonaut in person at the BOULDER BOOK STORE tonight, June 25 @ 7:30. Read More 

Gloria: "That moose is ok, but I prefer them with big horns."

Robin: "Don't be sexist."

Gloria: "I just like those big horns."

Robin: "They are not horns. They're antlers.

Gloria: "Whatever."

Robin: "What do you think of Boulder?"

Gloria: "Spectacular mountains, much cooler than El Paso."

Robin says: "The air!"

Gloria: "The green! The Trader Joe's!"

Robin: "Let's go."

Gloria: "Let's see this  Read More