Festivals • Travel • The West

Let’s face it, it’s expensive out there. I used to love going to the grocery store, but not anymore. For one thing, it’s always busy now, no matter when I go because apparently, everyone now works from home, and it’s ... [ Read More ]

In my years as the Mayor of HeidiTown and as a professional freelance writer, I have stayed at some truly outstanding hotels around Colorado. However, there is just something about The Crawford Hotel in Denver that speaks to my soul, ... [ Read More ]

I’ve always said that HeidiTown needs a helicopter. I found one at Wings Over the Rockies, Denver’s Air and Space Museum. This museum has been on our radar since we went to a food and beer festival there many years ... [ Read More ]

As usual, I went to some incredible places this summer. However, not quite as many as normal. And the standout memory of this summer will be walking at the lakes with Fritzi, my German Shepherd. She turned 5 years old ... [ Read More ]

New and shiny is popular right now, especially in Colorado—new neighborhoods, new bars, restaurants, new cars, new hotels. However, I think Colorado’s old hotels have a sort of magic about them that simply doesn’t exist in new builds. Hotel Colorado, ... [ Read More ]

For longtime followers of HeidiTown, this isn’t new information: Ryan and I like history. A lot. He tends to like the nuts and bolts while I like the overall story. That makes us a good team. Our love of history ... [ Read More ]

In an increasingly robot-run world, travel and tourism have not been immune. The self-check-in hotel is one example. I haven’t encountered this much in Colorado, or nearby states. I am not, after all, living or visiting the cutting-edge parts of ... [ Read More ]

Last month, we visited Telluride for the first time in eight years. We’d been invited to an Ah Haa School for the Arts Artist Retreat Dinner Series at the Madeline Hotel & Residences at Mountain Village (the ski resort part ... [ Read More ]

Our recent trip to the San Luis Valley was far from our first and won’t be our last. As I have written many times on HeidiTown.com, this is one of our favorite places on earth, not just in Colorado. Monte ... [ Read More ]

Sitting at Sunflour Café in Monte Vista, listening to a table full of men talk about their crops, it is obvious that the San Luis Valley is farm country. In fact, the San Luis Valley is the second largest producer ... [ Read More ]