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Author Peterson, Eric

Title Ramble Colorado : a Wanderer's Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked, and Outrageous
Published New York : Speck Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; INTRODUCTION; Denver and the Front Range; Colfax Avenue Odyssey; The Napa Valley of Beer; The High Rockies; A Chimp Riding a Unicycle; Zen and Longing in High Country; Southwestern Colorado; The Western Slope; Treasure Hunt; The Eastern Plains; Plains Journey; Rumble Manifesto; Appendix: Info, etc; Index
Summary Written in a sociologist-meets-Gonzo style, Ramble Colorado alternates between regional chapters and first-person travelogues. The regional chapters dish up the likes of maps, oddball stats, required reading, viewing, and listening lists, and all sorts of atypical tourist destinations, as well as the typical guidebook fare: places to wet your whistle, fill your gullet, and catch some ZZZs. The travelogues offer more vicarious journeys through cities, towns, and beyond, delivered with Peterson's openness to new experiences and self-deprecating humor. Delve into such adventures as "Zen and
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Subject Peterson, Eric, 1973- -- Travel -- Colorado
SUBJECT Peterson, Eric, 1973- fast
Subject Curiosities and wonders -- Colorado
Curiosities and wonders
Travel
SUBJECT Colorado -- Guidebooks
Colorado -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028663
Colorado -- Miscellanea
Colorado -- History, Local
Subject Colorado
Genre/Form Guidebooks
Local history
Trivia and miscellanea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781933108520
1933108525