Bug in Colorado

[mishalak]

Well Bridget "Bug" Bradshaw will be in Colorado from afternoon July 31st to afternoon August 5th on TAFF. Being somewhat connected to everything learned about this and I offered to pick her up from the airport on that Monday afternoon. She's likely to be tired and want to do something quiet that afternoon. Going to coordinate with Kent & Mary Bloom and vicarage on when they want to put her up and show her around.

Check out taffbug for what she likes and dislikes plus the mostly latest news about her trip and itinerary. After consulting with them about which days they're free to do/arrange stuff I'll want to consult with fellow fan and fan like people around here about what we might arrange while she's here. She'll just be missing the DASFA Alternate Party on the 5th, but perhaps First Friday Fandom would be fun for her. Or else we could have a dinner out with fans some night that week.

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[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Have fun with Bug, I'm sure you will be an excellent host.

x FF

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll try to be.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

As I said to Bug here, I've no work committments that week, but it might be awkward for her to get up to Boulder, as its about 70 miles from your house, 90 from Colorado Springs. I don't have a car but could hire one as I do at weekends.

We must show her the local rodents, prarie dogs are easy, chipmunks fairly so, but it might need a trip to Rocky Mountain National Park for the adorable marmots and the elusive pika. Moose would be good too.

For mountains, Pikes Peak and Mount Evans would be good. RMNP and Trail Ridge Road would be better, but its a long drive from where you are. Perhaps you could both come to Boulder midweek to see me and the delights of the Pearl Street Mall, stay overnight and then we could all go round the loop next day, dropping me off in Denver in the evening to catch the bus back.

I'd reccomend Victor as a great mining ghost town, but that's more a Colorado Springs thing.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

PS any walking needs to be flat or low-level, as she won't have time to aclimatise.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Ideally the best time for her to hit the mountains would be the last two days, health wise, so Thursday and Friday. But Friday is also First Friday Fandom, which is the only fannish gathering during her trip out here.

Getting her to your place is no problem; I think nothing of driving to Boulder from here as it's a trip I made many times in college. And I'd love to make a trek to the park, heck I might beg the use of my father's 4WD so that we could go up the more isolated Wagon road in the park and return on Trail Ridge if that would appeal.

Also there is a bus during weekdays that goes all the way from Boulder to the Tech Center every morning (the T) and of course the B as you mentioned. I'd love to do Pikes Peak, it's one of the few that I've never been up and it would make a good combination with Victor or the non-gambling parts of Criple Creek.

[gilraen2.livejournal.com]

we're waiting for Bug to tell us what she wants to do and when. kent has volunteered to pick her up and deliver her from the denver airport if that's what she needs. looking forward to having her at first friday on 4 august.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Well... It is one part us and one part her. What days work for you? I was thinking of picking her up and giving her some time to decompress out at my parents' house for the first part of a day and one more if that's something she feels like doing at that point. If not perhaps a gentle tour of Denver on Tuesday. If she feels up to it visit John in Boulder, see a few sites, Rocky Mountain National Park on Thursday and then either swing back to my parents' house or end up down with you guys in the Springs. That would give Friday for seeing some things down there and then doing First Friday in the evening. If she wants she could catch part of the DASFA Alternate on Saturday before getting taken to the airport. How would you/Kent feel about doing the drop off?