Beautiful, bike-friendly Boulder, CO

(Side note: It's obviously been a while since my first post. I had gotten really frustrated with the next post I tried to create and finally enlisted the help of a friend who has had a blog for a while. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You to my friend Amanda for helping me figure out why I was having so many problems. She is a lifesaver! You can see her blog at Lamb's Lines in the list at right.)


Steven spent almost a week recently in Boulder at a big off-site bike sale for Bicycle Village and since he was there over the weekend, I got to come up to spend some time with him and do some browsing on my own during the days. Boulder is incredibly bike-friendly and has a rack to lock up your bike outside every place in town. This one was my favorite, for being both functional and decorative. There are miles and miles of bike paths and there are even signs on the paths to tell you where in town you are so you know if you've reached your destination. Plus drivers are mostly courteous to bike riders, instead of being annoyed that you're taking up "their" space.

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This is exactly the way I would want my house to look if I couldn't have a front yard. I love how clean and simple it looks and all the angular lines and all the windows in the front of the house and the fact that there is a lot of vegetation in such a small area. And inside this house I would have this kitchen...

Every store I went into in Boulder had "No Photography" signs posted everywhere, who knows why. So I snuck this photo while the owner was outside talking on the phone. The color of the cabinets against the dark countertops looks just right. The countertop is Paperstone, made entirely of recycled paper. How cool is that?

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There were these amazing art pieces everywhere you go, but especially on Pearl Street, a pedestrian-only area about 1/2 mile long with all kinds of shops, street performers, restaurants, you name it. I would love to have this fountain in my yard.

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Even the door of the courthouse is artistic...

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We drove to the top of a super difficult road that Steven rode his bike on the day before, so he could show me the beautiful scenery. I'm glad I wasn't the one riding! Very faintly in the background you can see what we think is one of Colorado's 14ers, a peak that is above 14,000 feet. There are over 50 in the state, and some people make it a goal to hike/climb all of them. I've traversed about 5 or 6 of them so far, but I'd love to get a few more under my belt. Pike's Peak is probably the most famous 14er, and we're lucky enough to see it every day! We've only driven up that one, so I don't count it as being conquered just yet.