Off to Santa Barbara.
As we were driving around town tonight and I was noticing how town's getting busier (off-season is coming to a close), it occurred to me that this will be the first Memorial Day weekend since 1998 that I will not have spent in Aspen and the second since 1996.
I visited Aspen for Memorial Day weekends of 1996 and 1998 and then moved here Memorial Day weekend of 1999.
I've always enjoyed noting the differences each year. When I came in '96, Aspen was just about a ghost town. There was only one restaurant open as I recall, the long defunct Silver City Diner (replaced by the recently defunct Blue Maize).
When I came back in '98 with Susie, I'm sure that I sounded like a broken record, talking about how much more was open.
The next year when I was here with my dad, who had helped me move, the difference was even more striking.
Now it has gotten a bit passe, how busy Memorial Day weekend has become. Used to be that all the businesses which closed for off-season reopened in early June. Now they're mostly re-opening May 20th through 23rd.
And for the first time in 10 years, I won't be here. Odd.
As we were driving around town tonight and I was noticing how town's getting busier (off-season is coming to a close), it occurred to me that this will be the first Memorial Day weekend since 1998 that I will not have spent in Aspen and the second since 1996.
I visited Aspen for Memorial Day weekends of 1996 and 1998 and then moved here Memorial Day weekend of 1999.
I've always enjoyed noting the differences each year. When I came in '96, Aspen was just about a ghost town. There was only one restaurant open as I recall, the long defunct Silver City Diner (replaced by the recently defunct Blue Maize).
When I came back in '98 with Susie, I'm sure that I sounded like a broken record, talking about how much more was open.
The next year when I was here with my dad, who had helped me move, the difference was even more striking.
Now it has gotten a bit passe, how busy Memorial Day weekend has become. Used to be that all the businesses which closed for off-season reopened in early June. Now they're mostly re-opening May 20th through 23rd.
And for the first time in 10 years, I won't be here. Odd.
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