Boulder, Colorado.
Today we hoped to visit Shikha and Indrina before heading up to Boulder, but Shikha was sleeping and so we went directly to Boulder instead. I’ve been here several times, but Bev and I were here in 2021, and she and I both loved the town. I have some lovely photos of Bev here, and they made my heart glad to see them just before I wrote today’s blog.
Boulder is is a beautiful town, great for walking around, with lots of parks, lovely residential streets and houses, and a great downtown, filled with stores, restaurants, and music, with spectacular and dramatic mountain views in the background. The well-known Pearl Street Mall is great to walk, and the weather today was perfect for being outdoors here in Boulder.
After walking and driving around a little, including driving through the historic district, with wonderful homes, we headed west, about 9 miles outside of town, to Boulder Falls, which Bev and I visited and really enjoyed. Kaye and I released some of Bev’s ashes here, by Boulder Creek, and I followed my ritual of talking to Bev and letting her know how much I love her and why I picked this spot. It’s by now a comfortable ritual for me, and adds a little meaning.
After leaving Boulder Falls, we headed to Eldorado Canyon State Park in Eldorado Springs, which is yet another beautiful spot, and took a 2 mile hike. By now, the weather was a little more overcast, but still nice, with some rain and thunder in the air.
We headed back to the hotel for a while, to rest up a bit, and then headed back into beautiful downtown Boulder for dinner, and a little more of a walk and drive around, and wound up our day by releasing some more of Bev’s ashes in the lovely (like all of Boulder, seemingly) Boulder Creek Park, at a lovely time of day as dusk was coming down over Boulder, and some nice music playing at a local venue in the background. A lovely day.
nice music coming from the venue with the lights to the left in the photo
I think I’ll be coming back to Boulder if I come back this way in September, as I think I will, and perhaps stay a couple of days, maybe three.
Last thought for the day. Kaye is the first company I’ve had with me on this trip thus far. It’s different today. My thoughts are more on being with Kaye and enjoying our time together, and more vacation-like, and for Kaye it is a vacation away from her usual life and routine. The tone has changed, and is now interactive and with a different shape, and especially because it’s Kaye, the other person most deeply connected to the loss of Bev. I think this will continue while I’m with Kaye, which I’m looking forward to, until after I leave Berkeley, when my journey will once again continue in solitude, with a change in my internal tone and dialogue, when I’m again just talking to myself.