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Telluride.  Mountain Film and spring run off.  The air is filled with the scent of earth awakening,  aspens budding and unfurling into a green revival.  I sleep on a sofa with a commanding view of Bridal Falls, the valley floor, and the surrounding mountains.  Town is stirring to life after off season, with a flood [...]

Mr. Coili and I outside of his Pub in Galway City
I spend three days in Galway, home to traditional Irish music, a celebratory bohemian lifestyle, and an influx of immigrants.  It is a walking city and I gladly explore it on foot.  This is an ancient city with a rich and colorful history.  Though I [...]

I sit at the Heuston train station in Dublin.  I wait for the 2:30 train to Galway.  As it is with traveling, the unexpected is my most intimate and interesting companion.  A blizzard in Chicago has delayed my departure in Denver by more than two hours, my connecting flight to Dublin will be air bound [...]

I bought a one-way ticket to Dublin last summer, consciously disempowering my penniless pocket. In the world of the sane, that was not. I do not excel at defining what is possible by rational. Limitations have always seemed illusory to me. I have been admonished my entire existence by people who [...]