Category Archives: Places to Go

I’m not being overly-wordy in my title — that’s the name of the restaurant. We overheard the owner explaining things to another customer. When he bought the place in 2001, it was called “T’s Pantry.” He wanted to change it … Continue reading →

Margaret Tobin was born in 1967 in Hannibal, Missouri. As a young woman, she moved to Colorado where she met and married mining engineer J.J. Brown. He discovered a rich vein of gold, and the Browns became rich. They had … Continue reading →

Somebody has figured out how to make icicles and fuse them together to make walls and towers and other formations. The company looks for places — Minnesota, Utah, Alberta —where it stays cold long enough to build a castle. This … Continue reading →

I knew the rodeo HOF was in Colorado Springs, but I also knew it wouldn’t be terribly exciting, so I saved it for a bad-weather day. Saturday dawned snowy and messy with more snow promised later. I was the only … Continue reading →

I discovered Blue Pan Detroit Style Pizza online during my ongoing search for decent pizza in Colorado. It’s located about two miles from the Nature & Science Museum. All I knew about it is that the pizza is cooked in … Continue reading →