Daily Life | Journey Monkeys https://journeymonkeys.com It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:01:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://journeymonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-jm-favicon-1.png Daily Life | Journey Monkeys https://journeymonkeys.com 32 32 Mountain High, Dining Delight: Discovering the Culinary Gems of Gunnison and Crested Butte, Colorado https://journeymonkeys.com/2024/02/mountain-high-dining-delight-discovering-the-culinary-gems-of-gunnison-and-crested-butte-colorado/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2024/02/mountain-high-dining-delight-discovering-the-culinary-gems-of-gunnison-and-crested-butte-colorado/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:49:30 +0000 https://journeymonkeys.com/?p=1083 Gunnison and Crested Butte, Colorado, are not just havens for outdoor enthusiasts – hikers, mountain bikers, skiers, snowboarders, splitboarders, and all manner of backcountry enthusiasts – both towns also boast a vibrant culinary scene that’s a delight for foodies like us! Here’s a roundup of a few must-visit culinary gems of Gunnison and Crested Butte […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2024/02/mountain-high-dining-delight-discovering-the-culinary-gems-of-gunnison-and-crested-butte-colorado/feed/ 0 Gunnison, Colorado: A small town with a BIG Music Scene https://journeymonkeys.com/2023/06/gunnison-colorado-a-small-town-with-a-big-music-scene/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2023/06/gunnison-colorado-a-small-town-with-a-big-music-scene/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:25:17 +0000 https://journeymonkeys.com/?p=928 Gunnison, Colorado is a small town with a mountain-sized music scene. There are always live music events happening, from small, intimate shows to large festivals. Whether you’re looking for bluegrass, rock, country, or something else entirely, you’re sure to find something to your taste in Gunnison. Here are a few of the best places to […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2023/06/gunnison-colorado-a-small-town-with-a-big-music-scene/feed/ 0 Book Review: Dream Big by Kat Kronenberg https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/book-review-dream-big-by-kat-kronenberg/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/book-review-dream-big-by-kat-kronenberg/#comments Wed, 24 May 2017 14:51:54 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=596 Kat Kronenberg’s Dream Big was an accidental find for me. I was in search of a book by the same title to check off a genre on the PopSugar 2017 reading challenge that I’m having fun with this year. As I shared with you in my review of another book by the same name, anything with “Dream […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/05/book-review-dream-big-by-kat-kronenberg/feed/ 1 Book Review: Dream Big by Leslie Zimmerman https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/book-review-dream-big-by-leslie-zimmerman/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/book-review-dream-big-by-leslie-zimmerman/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2017 13:30:27 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=593 I learned about Leslie Zimmerman’s book, Dream Big, while I was reading George W. Bush’s Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors. Zimmerman, an Army Sergeant, served as a medic in Kuwait and later in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She returned home with PTS and depression and was spotlighted […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/book-review-dream-big-by-leslie-zimmerman/feed/ 1 Rising to POPSUGAR’s 2017 Reading Challenge https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/rising-to-popsugars-2017-reading-challenge/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/rising-to-popsugars-2017-reading-challenge/#respond Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:10:31 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=565 Who doesn’t like reading a good book? I’ve not ever tried a particular reading challenge, rather been tossed along as a pebble in a stream from one book to the next. Sometimes getting stuck in a rut and doing a marathon read of an entire series or settling into one particular genre or the other. […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/04/rising-to-popsugars-2017-reading-challenge/feed/ 0 Book Review: Jump by Steve Harvey https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/03/book-review-jump-by-steve-harvey/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/03/book-review-jump-by-steve-harvey/#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2017 18:01:46 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=555 I’ve been reading a lot of fiction lately, and with the new year, I thought it might be good to peruse a good professional book. One of my goals this year is to dust myself off and restart my goal of travel and lifestyle writing, and one of my favorite quotes is Jump, and the […]

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]]> https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/03/book-review-jump-by-steve-harvey/feed/ 0 Little Elm: A Town with a Lake Attitude https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/03/little-elm-a-town-with-a-lake-attitude/ https://journeymonkeys.com/2017/03/little-elm-a-town-with-a-lake-attitude/#respond Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:47:22 +0000 http://journeymonkeys.wpengine.com/?p=542 It’s been almost 20 years since Duane and I happened to come through this part of North Texas to visit some friends. As we drove through the downtown area of Denton, we saw an office space with a “For Rent” sign hanging in the window and we felt it was the perfect place, and time, for us […]

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