Traveling Cargopants

A journey into the west, the self, and beyond

Everything is OK

| October 15, 2009

A friend just sent this to me. Check this out. It’s awesome. There is a bunch more if you search for “everything is ok” on YouTube.

Pictures – Durango to Telluride

| October 15, 2009

How about some pictures finally? It took me a little while to find a decent photo gallery plugin for WordPress (my blog software). I finally settled on NextGEN Gallery. Here’s a series of pictures showing the beautiful drive from Durango to Telluride (Colorado).

Mesa Verde National Park

| October 14, 2009

Mesa Verde (link, link)… What a cool place! The Ancestral Puebloan people (i.e. Native Americans) were living a nomadic lifestyle until around 550 A.D. when they decided to settle into this area. Their initial settlements were “pit houses”, built by digging a pit in the ground, then covering it with timber and other basic roofing [...]

Telluride Blues & Brews Festival

| October 4, 2009

I started my trip by heading from New Mexico to Durango, expecting to spend a single night as I passed through to Mesa Verde, but I fell in love with the town and spent almost a week there. Then the guy who I was couch-surfing with told me that him and a few friends were [...]