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(Recycled from the House of Love)

Well, I wanted to get to the Netherlands, but I ended up in Nederland, Colorado. Very similar, except for the absence of any windmills, clogs, tulips, coffee-shops, red-light districts, gabber parties or cycling royals.

Instead, I’m surrounded by some of the most spectacular mountains and forests I’ve ever seen. The Rocky Mountains are aptly named - huge eruptions of solid rock rising out of an enormous plain, peppered all over by some very tenacious pine trees. In the distance you can see the occasional patch of ice and snow on some of the higher peaks. (more…)