Bob flies west to work and play in Utah and Denver – June 11 – 16
FRACKING
Bob was mesmerized by the telltale signs of fracking on the hills east of Salt Lake City. The scale of the disruption is vast.
Some of the access roads are carved into the mountainsides in unbelievable ways – must be fun to navigate them with trucks in the winter!
Waste Not Want Not!
Morgan helps the biodigester project find and secure food waste opportunities. This is the food waste compactor at a Salt Lake City area grocery store. The stores are sending all they can to local food banks, and the rest heads to the digester. The project makes bio-methane that ends up via pipeline in Houston TX where it is turned into to bio-methanol. The bio-methanol is shipped to the EU for use in gasoline as an oxygenator. The fuel is only accepted by the EU if it is 60% less carbon intensive (throughout its entire life cycle) than the fossil fuel equivalent.
CARS AND BARS
Bob’s rental car and a vegan restaurant that had to be called a bar because it serves alcohol – Utah’s funny like that.
SIGHT SEEING
Trolley Square and snow-capped Rockies from the top of Whole Foods in SLC.
ANT ART
Public art is underrated – what’s not to like about flying ants?
SALT LAKE CITY MORMON TEMPLE
Featuring the golden Angel Moroni. Bob and his buddy Bill stopped in for a stroll after dinner.
NOLAN’S PLAYGROUND
All children love to play in water on a hot day (that’s Nolan and his mom, Emily on the far end of the fountains), but Nolan loves these fountains any time of year. And he loves putting things together and taking them apart. Bob nailed it with these magnetic wooden blocks he picked up in a Winchester, VA toy shop.
SUNDAY MORNING CARTOONS
Nolan has enough hair for the both of them. He loves to snuggle while watching cartoons – The Cat in the Hat in this case.
DOWN BY THE DORMS
Bob and Ned stand beneath 234 Darley North, their college dorm room, looking as bad-ass as ever. They had a great time visiting the old haunts in Bolder.
Only In Boulder
The “Peoples Republic” still has its charms. Alferd Packer (“The Colorado Cannibal”) graces the food court at CU’s student union while some sort of analysis is offered at a building on The Hill.
BOULDER CREEK, THEN AND NOW
Back in the day, Bob and his buddies would head up Boulder Canyon on hot summer days to “cliff jump” into the frigid waters of Boulder Creek (That’s Bob in the aqua shorts top left waiting to jump). The water was running a little high on this visit for such antics.