Summer catch-up 2018

We've been back from Petoskey for over a month now (I do believe if I had stayed even one more day, I would never have left) - and this blog has been sorely neglected in the interim.
So! Catching up on the trip back to Boulder - more lovely running in the Great Plains - followed by some delightful running and events in Boulder!

The westward trip across the Plains offered up a variety of sights and, with two nights on the road, two early morning runs.

One more gas station walk for Mister Taz - this time with Dino!

Cheese, cow - gotta be Wisconsin!

Sisson Peony Gardens in Rosendale, Wisconsin - garden first started in the 1920s!

Found a bike trail a few blocks from the hotel. Score!
(Taz spotted a bunny, of course)

And the trail came with raspberries!

What would a trip across the plains be without a sunrise run
amidst the fields of Nebraska

Once back in Boulder the funnin' and runnin' continued.

...reunions reunions reunions!

Phenomenal year for cherries!
Good thing lots of friends & family
to help pick!

Portlandians visited! The family is together again!

Grad School Study Buddy Reunion - at the Dead and Company Concert! Awesome!

Deb! Most fabulous work partner - and Chief PJ's Run Logistics Partner -
back in town for a brunch rendezvous

And, of course, there has been many a morning run...
 

Running past Baseline lake early in the morning - there's a pelican on that raft and a moon about to set...

Sunrise over South Boulder Creek Trail

63rd Street Farm - always an entertaining sight on the run toward Longmont - this time with turkeys and piglets along with the sows and hogs.

Next up:  an August-September road trip with trail runs in Pennsylvania (Allegheny River Trail), New Jersey (Paulinskill Valley Trail), Connecticut (Farmington River Trail), Rhode Island (Blackstone River Greenway), Massachusetts (Minuteman Bikeway), Maine (Acadia National Park), Vermont (Island Line Rail Trail) and New Hampshire & New York - for which I'm still working on figuring out the trails. If we pull this off, that will be states 37-45 in the quest to run a trail in every state!