Tuesday May 13 2008
consisted of walking through Cherry Creek State Park since we didn’t get around to driving up to the mountains. I drive by here a lot, but only end up seeing the north side of the dam from interstate 225. If you’re a road cycling enthusiast this state park, located in southeast Denver is heaven. Plenty of smooth trails and roads.
Although its hard to spelunk deep inside the park without still seeing condos in the distance there are some slightly woodsy trails like the “Shop Creek” trail pictured. If you’re visiting Denver and looking for some outdoor fun its a fun place to visit - and you can take the train there too. But I’d still recommend going up to Boulder and heading into the canyons.
Another observation: Being from the boating mecca of Michigan I’ve never understood the lure, (pun alert,) of buying a fancy high speed boat just to zoom from one side of a reservoir to the other. But all through the summer I see folks hauling their rigs to Grand Lake, Dillon Reservoir, and Chatfield and Cherry Creek Reservoir. And they all have Colorado plates. I can understand a small fishing boat or a couple kayaks, but I just don’t get pleasure boating on a small body of water like this. If I’m boating I want to crash some waves and see new ports. Or at least get far enough away to where I can’t swim to another boat. In Grand Haven, Michigan or the much higher priced Marina del Ray you can actually go places.
More at Cherry Creek Reservoir’s site.
Our second adventure consisted of Nas, who you’ll recall from our Walden camping post, making us potato pancakes with garlic yogurt sauce. These are a staple of his native country Bulgaria, and deceptively satisfying when given some time and care. On the way home we stopped at the East Europe Market, on Colorado Boulevard behind Hooters, and picked up some cheese and yogurt.
First we make the sauce of garlic, yogurt, dill, and some other seasonings and put it aside. Then we mashed up the boiled potatos, peel, and mixed in the cheese.
After forming the pancakes from the potatos we flour them, coat them with an egg layer, dredge them in a layer of breadcrumbs, and fry ‘em up.
It may look easy, but it took us, no wait HIM, a lot of time to get these little guys just right, mainly because we took the time to make the with care and precision, rather than just slapping them together (which is how I usually make pancakes.)
With some cold beer they were the perfect non-hydrating cure for my wretched sunburn.
More auto news: Here’s an accident I saw at 7th and Josephine last week. No one was hurt. But how can that car hit the telephone pole with such straight on perfection?
One of my favorite DJs, Nick Terranova aka Starkillers, will be at Beta Nightclub in Denver Thursday, May 1st.
Zengo is chef
I think that this is a really great idea. If you’re a seasoned travel how many times have you fidgeted in frustration behind a novice who can’t seem to empty that last pocket of change? They’re just not sure what to keep on person versus shove through the x-ray, and have a way of slowing down the entire que.
For Colorado Rick Steves fans: He’ll be speaking at the Lodo Tattered Cover on Wednesday, February 27th at 5pm.
Meanwhile back at the gigantic Denver airport competition was still lacking. Little development was in or around the massive swath of land, making DIA seem ever further away. (In Kansas as many still say.)
That low cost carrier traffic helped bring prices down overall, and things have grown rapidly at Denver by the regulars and more: jetBlue’s flights serve New York, Lufthansa serves cities in Germany non-stop, and United just announcing non-stop London service, adding a choice to British Airway’s already existing non-stop.

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