Preface

Year Three ... LEATHER! The website this year is a "Coffee Table Leather Bound Book" of our third year together. Branded into the cover of the book are our initials. Why the rope theme along with the leather ... I don't know, it just looked good.

The book contains chapters of some of our adventures over the past year which include; our anniversary trip, skiing, spring trip to Roatan, motorcycles rides, golf and our kitty Simi. We were not very good at taking pictures this year and miss a lot of photo opportunities. We didn't take any pictures of the holidays, very few of skiing or golfing. Hope you enjoy what we do have and put on our website.

To navigate this book; you can left click the mouse on the page number in the lower corner of the page and drag the page left or right. Also, you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to flip the pages. Lastly, you can select a particular chapter or page from the drop down menu located at the upper right of the book. You also might want to adjust the zoom on your browser to fit the site into the screen.

The website actually spans the year 2011 because of the time of year that I can work on the project. Each year, started in 2010, I will update our website around the first of the new year, more then likely during the month of January.

Our Anniversary Chapter

Our 3 year anniversary was spent in Red Lodge, MT where we met. We traveled up in the truck pulling the motorcycle trailer with the bike inside. It was a multifaceted trip in that we worked, played and gathered during the trip. Our play involved the Montana Tavern Association golf tournament and a couple motorcycle rides to the Belfry Bar(where we actually met and talked for the first time), up the Beartooth Pass and a loop ride with one of the stops being in Columbus and the "Dead Animal Bar". We worked too at Rock Creek Resort doing some needed managerial work and also attending the Montana Tavern Association meetings. The gathering portion of our trip was to bring home all the personal items that we had left behind in a little apartment that we though we would use but never did. Every time we would visit Red Lodge, we stayed at the resort and not the apartment. All in all ... the trip was fun with the weather being somewhat like our wedding year, unpredictable!

Skiing Chapter

There's always a party on Vail Mountain. Our website time frame actually spans two seasons. This year it is the end of the 2010-11 season and the beginning of the 2011-12 season. The 10-11 season was a record year with over 500 inches of snow. The powder shots on the following page are from a day in the spring in Sun Up Bowl and was just one of many of similar days. The last picture is from our ski day on Christmas 2011, skiing with Pepi  and an old family friend DV. The 2011-12 season started out very slow with snow but it was nice enough on Christmas to take a run.

The Roatan Spring Trip Chapter

This was our annual spring trip to somewhere warm with a beach, scuba diving and plenty of food and drink to relax with after the ski season ended and before motorcycle season starts. We left Colorado early in the morning, sometime shortly after midnight and arrived in Roatan before noon the same day. We were drinking cervezas and on the beach around one o-clock in the afternoon. The trip was about 10 days long with most days being great weather. We dove one day with a little rain but the diving was very good for all our dives. The overall experience was good but not the best. The food at the resort was what brought the whole experience lower.

From our diving experiences, Roatan had the most sea turtles then any other place that we have been. This sequence of pictures with Sheika and a turtle swim by happen about mid trip.

The Motorcycle Ride Chapter

We did a few trips this year but not as many as we were hoping for. The weather this years was very wet until July. You can see in the picture of the rainbow coming into Vail that this was a wet year. This picture was taken in early September. Within this chapter are a few of the "bigger" trips we took starting with our first ride over Independence Pass in June, Canon City in late June, Bandimere in July, Lake City in August and one last ride over Independence Pass in September. In a separate chapter in this book is another motorcycle "Fly-n-Ride" trip to Arizona in November.

Canon City Ride

This was a ride that was unplanned. We went to a bike rally in Colorado Springs and was running a little late getting home. We stopped in Fairplay for the evening and then getting up the next day heading south rather then north. Our experience in Fairplay was fun from an offer to stay in a guys "double wide" because he thought that I was scared to stay in the "haunted" motel in town to the invite to the bowling alley by the owner to taste some of the "best" vodka made. We travel south in the morning experiencing some new roads and beautiful scenery along the way. We stop at the Royal Gorge for some pictures, then off to Salida for the night. We traveled home on the third day out. Turn out to be a great impromptu trip.

Mile High Nationals @ Bandimere

A weekend trip to Denver to watch the Mile High National Drag Races at the Badimere Speedway in Morrison, CO. We traveled down on the bike leaving on Saturday night and took Bear Creek Canyon from Evergreen to Morrison. In Morrison, we stopped for a beverage, then headed to Denver for the night. We attended the races on Sunday and stayed another night in Denver. Before heading to the apartment, we stop at a few places on Broadway. We found a quite little place and noticed that a summary of the races were on ESPN. Watching, we noticed a guy that we were standing next to during the races was on ... then ... Sheika was on TV! She made her TV début on ESPN that day. We started our return trip on Monday and took a back road from Evergreen to Idaho Springs. Traveling along we passed the road up to Mt. Evens. We decided to take a short side trip (which took a couple hours) up to the top. The last page shows a few pictures. The "Road to the Star" started in 1924 and completed in 1930. The "Castle in the Sky" was the highest structure in the world at 14260ft. It was destroyed by an explosion in 1979.

Golfing Chapter

We golf in the fall when things are slower and we can get the courses to ourselves! The shot of the hawk was taken by Sheika on one of our days playing. On the next page are shots at the Valley Course of Cordillera.

Camping Chapter

The picture says it all. Our camping gear is one year older without any more wear!