We're back home again in Steamboat Springs after visiting the eastern seasboard and enjoying sights of the region. We'll now settle back into our Colorado lifestyle for the summer and enjoy these spectacular high country vistas. We have a few shows scheduled around the region this summer and hope we'll be able to meet many of our old friends and make some new along the way.
Our local Saturday market opens this weekend here in Steamboat Springs. Its a terrific event every Saturday morning featuring a nice mix of traditional Farmer's Market goods as well as some homemade arts and crafts stuff. We are pleased to be included again this year as we find this market to be one of our best countrywide! We'll be at this Saturday morning show nearly every week until fall so make plans to stop and see us if you get in our area.
One Saturday attendance exception will be over the Fther's Day weekend. We will be in Salida, Colorado for the FIBARK River Festival for a four day show attended by some of the best and most ardent river sport fans around. This is the US' oldest river festival and should be a great time. We'll be there with some new shirt designs which should prove popular among those in attendance. Hope you'll be able to take the trip to this beautiful mountain community.
Until our paths cross...
GET OUT THERE!
6/11/09:
6/4/09:
Into the wild!
Currently, we're on Skidaway Island, Georgia, finishing up a week long trip here visiting the coastal region and enjoying the unbelievably beautiful squares of downtown Savannah. We've learned that the original town of Savannah was laid out by General James Oglethorpe in 1733 and the original 4 squares were designed as open space intended for the military to practice their drills. Over time, twenty more squares were added, making a gridwork of downtown beauty of lush plantings, spectacular water fountains, and outstanding Live Oak trees draping the squares with tenticle-like limbs draped with luxurious blankets of Spanish Moss. If you remember the famous Forest Gump movie scene where Tom Hanks' character delivers his "life is like a box of chocolates" line, you'll have seen one of these settings, as much of the movie was filmed in the Savannah area.
We came to the Savannah area to visit family as we were tired and had been "on the road" doing the festival circuit in Arizona and New Mexico since mid-February, when we sold our boat and became "landlubbers" again (if you have any interest in sailing the Caribbean, see our sailing blog: www.allergictocities.blogspot.com for those adventures). Then, in April and May we "set up camp" in Golden, Colorado, the home of Coors beer, for several weekend markets and shows in nearby Denver. Finishing those markets made us really feel Allergic to Cities, so we "escaped" to southern Georgia and the seclusion of this marshy island adjacent to the same stretch Intercoastal Waterway we'd traversed on our trip south two years earlier. This seems a to be working remedy for our current malady and we're feeling slightly re-fueled as we prepare to head off tomorrow for the high country of Colorado, and our home in Steamboat Springs.
We'll be basing from there this summer and doing shows in the greater Colorado area. We're really excited to be included in one particular festival: FIBARK, in Salida, Colorado over the long weekend of June 18-21. This is the US' oldest river festival and certainly one of the best. We'll have our Allergic to Cities tent set up and ready to go by Thursday and hope to see some of our new "allergic" friends in attendance. Stop by our booth and tell us you saw this on our blog and we'll have something special for you.
See you out there...
We came to the Savannah area to visit family as we were tired and had been "on the road" doing the festival circuit in Arizona and New Mexico since mid-February, when we sold our boat and became "landlubbers" again (if you have any interest in sailing the Caribbean, see our sailing blog: www.allergictocities.blogspot.com for those adventures). Then, in April and May we "set up camp" in Golden, Colorado, the home of Coors beer, for several weekend markets and shows in nearby Denver. Finishing those markets made us really feel Allergic to Cities, so we "escaped" to southern Georgia and the seclusion of this marshy island adjacent to the same stretch Intercoastal Waterway we'd traversed on our trip south two years earlier. This seems a to be working remedy for our current malady and we're feeling slightly re-fueled as we prepare to head off tomorrow for the high country of Colorado, and our home in Steamboat Springs.
We'll be basing from there this summer and doing shows in the greater Colorado area. We're really excited to be included in one particular festival: FIBARK, in Salida, Colorado over the long weekend of June 18-21. This is the US' oldest river festival and certainly one of the best. We'll have our Allergic to Cities tent set up and ready to go by Thursday and hope to see some of our new "allergic" friends in attendance. Stop by our booth and tell us you saw this on our blog and we'll have something special for you.
See you out there...
6/3/09:
WECOME to the new "Allergic to Cities" blog!
Well lookee here... it seems we now have a blog space where we can communicate as freely and openly as we want. This space will also allow us to keep you aware of our doings as we travel around meeting and greeting some of you out there "on the road". We'll try to mention upcoming festivals and shows you'll be able to find us at, as well as news about new products.
We look forward to receiving input from you all and welcome comments which you'd like shared and passed forward. With these words of caution, we ask you use courtesy and decency when posting, as we hope to keep this blog appropriate for any age. We encourage you to submit your writing/ramblings to us for publishing consideration and we will add those which seem appropriate. Please feel free to discuss your "allergies" with us, whether severe or humorous and hopefully, you'll find someone else who can contribute to your posting with a remedy, some empathy or maybe even some sincere sympathy. We reserve the right to publish only those we find worthy and may edit, if necessary for brevity and space concerns.
Also, we love to see you wearing our gear in cool places, so be sure to snap a photo for our blog of you wearing something from us and let us know where you were when the pic was shot, and maybe where you bought the item, too. (Our retailers love the notice that they carry the coolest wear around.) By the way, the best photos,every so often, will receive something fun from our "wear-house" in the mail for their trouble... so feel free to snap away!
We really do look forward to hearing from you so everyone, get after it. Let us know what new "allergies" you've uncovered and what remedies you might suggest as a cure. Or, just let us know how you feel about some of the known ones we've already identified in our line of apparel.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Rick and Suz
We look forward to receiving input from you all and welcome comments which you'd like shared and passed forward. With these words of caution, we ask you use courtesy and decency when posting, as we hope to keep this blog appropriate for any age. We encourage you to submit your writing/ramblings to us for publishing consideration and we will add those which seem appropriate. Please feel free to discuss your "allergies" with us, whether severe or humorous and hopefully, you'll find someone else who can contribute to your posting with a remedy, some empathy or maybe even some sincere sympathy. We reserve the right to publish only those we find worthy and may edit, if necessary for brevity and space concerns.
Also, we love to see you wearing our gear in cool places, so be sure to snap a photo for our blog of you wearing something from us and let us know where you were when the pic was shot, and maybe where you bought the item, too. (Our retailers love the notice that they carry the coolest wear around.) By the way, the best photos,every so often, will receive something fun from our "wear-house" in the mail for their trouble... so feel free to snap away!
We really do look forward to hearing from you so everyone, get after it. Let us know what new "allergies" you've uncovered and what remedies you might suggest as a cure. Or, just let us know how you feel about some of the known ones we've already identified in our line of apparel.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Rick and Suz
