Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Cold Month<\/p>\n
And so it is.\u00a0 The cold month I mean.\u00a0 -7 last night here in Denver.\u00a0 Not Minnesota cold, but still, it counts.\u00a0 The snow though has mostly disappeared from the city streets and will be all gone by the weekend when highs in the 40’s hit the high plateau.<\/p>\n
Kate and I went to the REI flagship store yesterday, a large brick building that used to be a tramway (don’t know what that is) now stuffed with ice axes, mountaineer boots and more fleece than you shake a sheep at.\u00a0 It has a very Colorado feel with many young, hyper fit folks looking for the right gear for climbing a 14’er and then skiing back down.<\/p>\n
Denver has a young persons feel with many interesting bars like the Cheeky Monk and the Irish Snug.\u00a0 Gastro pubs.\u00a0 Kate and I stopped for lunch at the Cheeky Monk, a woody homage to some form of Belgian culture with Belgian waffles on offer as a dessert item.\u00a0 Kate had a beer sampler that included Stone’s Lucky Bastard and Avey’s Czar.\u00a0 Potent stuff.\u00a0 More so than Kate anticipated.<\/p>\n
We’ve both eaten a bit too much fried and fatty with corresponding complaints from our digestive systems.\u00a0 You’d think at our age…<\/p>\n
In spite of its proximity to the mountains, the Rockies loom on the western horizon, Denver is a flat city, very Midwestern in that way.<\/p>\n
Since this is the time period of the Great Western Stock Show the restaurants have many cowboy hats, cowboy boots and the occasional sequined Rodeo Queen.\u00a0 It all gives Denver that Western feel that it sometimes lacks in the summer.<\/p>\n
OK.\u00a0 Off to the Denver Mint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Moon of the Cold Month And so it is.\u00a0 The cold month I mean.\u00a0 -7 last night here in Denver.\u00a0 Not Minnesota cold, but still, it counts.\u00a0 The snow though has mostly disappeared from the city streets and will be all gone by the weekend when highs in the 40’s hit the high … Continue reading The Cheeky Monk and The Irish Snug<\/span>