Ramble Colorado : a Wanderer's Guide to the Offbeat, Overlooked, and Outrageous

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 Machine Derived Contents Note: Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Denver And The Front Range -- Chapter 2 -- Colfax Avenue Odyssey -- Chapter 3 -- The Napa Valley Of Beer -- Chapter 4 -- The High Rockies -- Chapter 5 -- A Chimp On A Unicycle: A Skiing Virgin Hits The Slopes -- Chapter 6 -- Zen And Longing In High Country: A Rocky Mountain Journey To The Center Of The Mind -- Chapter 7 -- Southwestern Colorado -- Chapter 8 -- The Western Slope -- Chapter 9 -- Treasure Hunt -- Chapter 10 -- The Eastern Plains -- Chapter 11 -- Plains Journey -- Appendix. By Eric Peterson. Includes Index. An off-the-beaten-path travel guide/travelogue to the Centennial State.