It's a wild life here in Boulder! Things are happening all the time.
Last weekend we went up to Hessie Trailhead in the Indian Peaks Wilderness and tried our 4WD new Ford Bronco, which was awesome - like riding a rollercoaster. The views were stunning and I promise to upload pics soon.
On Tuesday we each got 2 free tickets because our French, hilarious movie The Intouchables which we watched with the psych hiking club was delayed.
Yesterday we spend $550 on food, gear and outdoor clothing at REIs and saved 100s of dollars with their Labour Day sale (Labour day Sep 3rd)
Turns out I just missed this fella today on my 7 a.m. morning run.
And on Sunday I have a date with Obama (don't worry, Morten will be there too).
Crazy, crazy. And I wonder why I never have time to update my blog and write you guys a proper email. Tsk tsk.
torsdag den 30. august 2012
søndag den 12. august 2012
External stay in Boulder, Colorado
June 26th - July 26th 2012
The reasonFinally, the day I had been waiting for for two years arrived. I moved to Boulder, Colorado as part of my PhD study at KU. Protein pharmaceutics just took one step up the coolness ladder as I will now be working with protein pharmaceutics at high hydrostatic pressures. For those of you not in the protein world, it's like befriending superman. In this case he (the high pressure) saves proteins from the death of aggregation and even restores them back to good, healthy, refolded proteins. It is rather awesome and I am looking forward to cool experiments in Ted Randolph's lab.
Arriving to the wildfire
Smoky morning at 5 a.m. |
From my window I followed the fire at Bear Peak
Bear peak as a vulcano |
Twilight view from my room |
Same view at night |
Mel and the psych hiking club
Melanie is Canadian with parents from England and Germany. Many of her coworkers in the neuroscience field are international postdocs and phd students. They often refer to themselves as the psych hiking club because they go on shorter or longer hiking trips - though, usually only one day at a time. I only got to have this fantastic roommate for 3 days, before she went on a long trip to Europe. Luckily for me she left me her friends and we have had much fun and social life together.
Goodbye and introduction dinner at a pizza restaurant. From left: Marina, ES; Marieke, NL; Mel, Ca; Jess, US; Nic, FR and my self |
Before the first hike near Breckenridge @ Snickerdoo Mountain |
Snickerdoo Mountain - My first thirteener (13,000 ft = 3,962 m) |
Unexpected visit from a good friend
My friend and coworker, Mette, is currently doing her external stay at Kansas University (KU) in the neighbouring state. I had been trying to reach her for days after my arrival, but her American number seemed to only work through Viber in Denmark and not with a normal American phone number. My first Friday night she called me and apologized that she hadn't called back. She just passed through Boulder and was on the way back to Kansas with her boyfriend. What? Why Boulder? And why hadn't she called if she was in Boulder? Turned out that Lawrance, Kansas was so hot and had so little to offer for tourists that her and Jan rented a car and went hiking 10 hours west in what is actually the Boulder backcountry: Nederland and James park. They were just half an hour out of Boulder so I pursuaded them to come back although they were driving the whole night to catch a flight back to Denmark the next day. Mette has been in the states since March and it was fantastic to see her again. Jan had come here for a conference + quality time and they were so cute.
Boulder creek path and tubing
I live in Family Housing which is a branch of university housing. We are perfectly situated between campus and Pearl Street, right next to the most beloved cycling path here: The Boulder Creek Path. It starts in the mountains and runs east through town. It is shared between pedestrians and bikers. Paved and adventurous. Just a 6 minutes ride takes me to east campus where my lab is. Boulder is a great bike city. Once you've figured out which roads to take (and which to avoid), travel by bike is safe and fast. I never had a mountain bike before, but was determined to get one "just in case" I would go for a ride in the mountains. I simply love it!
So lush |
Always twisting a winding |
Hanging out at Boulder Creek (Path)
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http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_20973122/boulders-tube-work-day-best-commute-ever
Firmly decided to go tubing, I bought 6 tubes for me and the psych hiking club. After airing them the tubes very huge and barely fit into the commute car I got though the university carshare deal. I soon discovered that they were not nearly as big, though, as they should have been. The blue marks on my butt after Mette and I did our virgin voyage on the creek were good proof (sorry, no photage!)
Goofing out at the sun heated wall of my building after ½ an hour of tubing |
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