Running and thinking in Colorado.
This was the norm in this up-scale neighborhood: Cars behind locked cages.
And finally: a waterfall in the calm, relaxing Spyrogyra Butterfly Jungle with many of the species of Butterfly found in this country.First impressions… It would seem that few visitors to Costa Rica return home with gasp-inducing tales of the beauty of San Jose. Why? Frankly, it is not particularly beautiful, and any sharp intake of breath will probably have more to do with an attempt to avoid the exhaust pollution. Downtown, streets are packed with traffic as heavy buses barely moving beyond second gear crawl through the streets and kamikaze taxis double dare pedestrians to try and cross the streets. At street level the general theme of clutter and chaos prevails with vendors selling fruit, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and other daily necessities.
ums. I knew about the obscure (to Americans) southerner William Walker who came down to Central America before the Civil War attempting to bring the Central American states under the Confederate orbit. I didn't know that Costa Rica considers this the most important struggle of their history. William Walker made several attempts at taking over Central America before meeting his executors in 1860 at age 36.
Si alguna vez os perdeis por Madrid no dejeis de ir a la Casa Museo de Joaquín Sorolla, una maravilla del mundo del arte.
This morning's run was from Starsmore Discovery Center to Stratton Open Space, Cap'n Jacks to the top of High Drive, Buckhorn Trail, return to Gold Camp Road, then Columbine Trail back to Starsmore. Two and a half hours and about 14 miles. The temperature at our 0700 start was 13F -- much warmer than on Thursday morning's run up Cheyenne Canyon when it was -5 F. More pictures from this morning's run here.
Matt Taibbi is the author of Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire, and a contributing editor for Rolling Stone Magazine and the eyes and ears for Real Time on the campaign trail.
Jackie and Dunlap have the secret audio of the historic moment in the ABC/Facebook debate in New Hampshire when moderator Charlie Gibson brought both the Republican and Democratic candidates together on stage.
