February 2025

A Tale of Two Cities: Crested Butte, Colorado

“Here, have this tomato,” said the guy on the free bus. That was my first experience in Crested Butte; receiving a fat, heirloom tomato from a friendly hippie high on life and Vinotok, the town’s annual celebration of nature, community and harvest.  That was in 2015. I was staying at a bed and breakfast downtown and attending a tourism conference. Fast forward to 2018, and Ryan and I spent three

The Where & The Why of Our Travel in 2025. HeidiTown

I didn’t write a “looking ahead” post at the start of 2025, so here it is. We have a lot of travel planned this year. It isn’t all related to my writing, but you can bet I’ll write about all of it! Next week, we’re heading to Crested Butte. It’s a work trip for Ryan, and I decided to tag along. Fritzi is going too. Grand Lodge kindly gave us