{"id":52,"date":"2009-05-06T20:54:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T04:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-05-07T22:05:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T06:05:37","slug":"boulder-co-revisited-29-years-hence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Boulder, CO … revisited 29 years hence"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was 19 I was on the tail end of a several-month odyssey that took me 300 miles down the Pacific Crest Trail<\/a> from Cascade Locks<\/a> to the California border by foot, followed by some easy time spent with high school friends<\/a> who had escaped Orange County, NY for Marin County, CA, followed by a long, slow trip to Mexico, and then hitchhiking\/meandering up through Arizona all the way to Wyoming and finally down to Boulder, CO<\/a>, where I visited for an entire month with a guy that grew up next door to me<\/a>, but which had managed to leave and head west a year or two earlier.\u00a0 I worked day labor picking tomatoes until\u00a0 I could afford to buy a car, which turned out to be a black ’59 Volkswagen purchased for $400 which I drove East with a Danish college student to get back home.<\/p>\n

Looking back, and writing this 29 years later here again in Boulder, CO , if I had known what I know now, I don’t think I would have ever left what has to be one of the very best towns in America.<\/p>\n

I could go on and on about Boulder, but the crux of it is a combination of things, such as perfect climate, progressive politics, low crime, intelligent planning, spectacular scenery … I mean, what else is there?<\/p>\n

Getting off the job at 5:30 PM today left plenty of time for me to head up Pearl Street to the Pearl Street Mall<\/a> where I had a great dinner overlooking tulips against brick punctuated by happy people walking by.\u00a0 It’s spring here, and everyone seems very content and at peace.\u00a0 After dinner I found a cool Nepalese shop and bought a singing bowl<\/a>, which is a remarkable Tibetan invention about 1500 years old that fills the room with a tone said to heal your troubled Chakras.\u00a0 Following that I was absolutely struck by a guy playing a combination of a digeradoo, steel drums, bells, and I don’t know what else, all simultaneously in a lyrical, story-telling fashion.\u00a0 He had forty people transfixed for ten minutes while he used his entire body to make some incredible music.\u00a0 His name is Christopher <\/a>and I think his music would be perfect for film soundtracks.<\/p>\n

A typical evening in paradise, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you visit a place and you have a sense that your name, or perhaps you destiny is written all over it.\u00a0 For me, this is such a place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could go on and on about Boulder, but the crux of it is a combination of things, such as perfect climate, progressive politics, low crime, intelligent planning, spectacular scenery … I mean, what else is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.owenscott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}