Monthly Archives: August 2008

Sierra Nevada Brewery tour

Here’s a quick unedited clip of the Sierra Nevada Brewery tour I took in Chico last week. Sierra Nevada Brewery Tour from Jason Baldwin on Vimeo.

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Day 8: Mountain Cry

I worked most of the morn­ing in my rather depress­ing room at the Motel 6, but as soon as I got to a good stop­ping point, I beat a path out of town, but not before an early lunch at … Continue read­ing

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Day 7: Damn, it’s hot.

I had trou­ble sleep­ing Wednesday night and woke far too early for my late bedtime—gambling will do that to a person—so, nat­u­rally, I went to the hotel casino. I’d ended the night before up $20, so, fig­ur­ing I was play­ing … Continue read­ing

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Day 6: As We Go Up, We Go Down

Traffic on the street below my room at the Red Lion Hotel in Salt Lake City was loud enough to roust me from sleep at 6AM, far ear­lier than I’d hoped to get up, since I didn’t get to sleep … Continue read­ing

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Day 5: Dirt Roads, Dead Ends & Dust

After an oil change for my car, I left Glenwood Springs and hit Interstate 70 toward Utah. I spent the after­noon at Arches National Park near Moab, tak­ing pho­tos and doing a lit­tle bit of hik­ing. Because most of the … Continue read­ing

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Day 4: Some may never live, but the crazy never die

When I opened the door of my motel room, I was greeted by dense fog and a steady cold wind. The sky was grey for as far as I could see, so I stayed in the room for a while, … Continue read­ing

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Day 3: Dust In The Wind

Despite get­ting to bed at 2AM in my lux­u­ri­ous room at America’s Best Value Inn in Independence, Kansas, I awoke around 8AM on Day 3 in a fog. As I’m barely func­tional until I get a cup of cof­fee and … Continue read­ing

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Day 2: Goody Goody Po

After clear­ing the cob­webs with a cof­fee from Northwest, Marie and I set out for Connelly’s Goody Goody Diner, a St. Louis insti­tu­tion for over 60 years, for break­fast. It bodes well for a place when it’s packed for break­fast … Continue read­ing

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Day 1: Gateway To The West

The weather was more Indiana-in-August-like than it had been in weeks, the kind of weather in which no mat­ter how high the A/C is set, you’re still clammy. I didn’t get as early a start today as I’d have liked, … Continue read­ing

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Let’s get social, shall we?

I men­tioned ear­lier that I’m using a Dash Express GPS on the trip. One of the coolest fea­tures is Send2Car, which allows me (or any­one who knows my user­name) to send me an address. If there’s some­where on the trip … Continue read­ing

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