Thursday, June 12, 2008

On the subject of Colorado . . . Eat at Beau Jo's

I used to be related to a guy who wouldn't watch the same movie more than once. I've known people who don't want to travel to the same place twice. And I can totally respect that.

But I am SO not one of those people. The spousal unit and I realized a long time ago that as much as we like to travel to new places, we also really like to go back to those that we've enjoyed so we can enjoy them some more. We love the hiking in Sedona; we love the Colorado mountains in general, Summit and Lake Counties in particular; we love where we get to stay in Florida (but the area is nice, too).

We've also discovered that food can make or break a vacation (Prince Edward Island, Canada, wins the prize for the worst food on vacation EVER - except for breakfast at our B&B, the places we ate on that island were cr*p and got worse each successive day until we gave up after a restaurant served us a microwaved steak and chicken breast and drove over an hour to the worst Pizza Hut in the world because it was at least edible - there apparently *is* a reason why there are Italian, Japanese, Chinese, French, Indian, Mexican, and plenty of other restaurants but NO Canadian restaurants - but I totally digress).

Suffice to say that our best vacations have been those with good food - Sedona has great restaurants but Colorado has been the most consistent - with one minor exception (a Chinese restaurant in Breckenridge that was merely average and is no longer there) we've had nothing but good luck in Colorado with restaurants.

And because we've only ever stayed in the mountains in Colorado, we've always had to take I-70 there and back and have discovered that Idaho Springs is a great place to have lunch. It's probably also good for breakfast and dinner but we've only ever experienced it for lunch and I've not yet gone to Colorado (as an adult) when I didn't get to eat in Idaho Springs - so that's something else I'm looking forward to in August. Lunch in Idaho Springs.

Unfortunately, as N is a pain in the *ss to feed, we'll probably have to go somewhere that will serve French fries just so he will eat something in which case we'll probably visit Tommyknocker's. Which is not a bad thing - I love Tommyknocker's, too. But if I had my druthers I'd be goin' to Beau Jo's for pizza. Y-u-m-m-e-e-e-e-e.

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