No music festivals, no dance, no theater, no art galleries, no children’s programs, no singing, no film festivals, no sculpture, no debates in the newspaper about differing …
Winter 2009 – 2010
While other Colorado towns (Vail) lined up for economic stimulus money…
Winter Snow Scenes
Pierre Mion taught his popular Winter Watercolor Workshop featuring Pagosa area snow scenes, one of which was featured on the December page of the 2009 Pagosa Country Calendar.
Winter 2013 – 2014
Overlooked Family Bargains in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming –
Wolf Creek, Pagosa Springs, Colorado, most snow in Colorado.
Pagosa Springs
$58 adult lift tickets, no lift lines. great food at the ski lodge. Great accommodations. Lots to do besides great skiing & great snowboarding. Hike, cross-country ski, snow shoe. horseback ride, sleigh ride, enjoy Pagosa Hot Springs, right downtown Pagosa. indoor heated olympic pool. Great restaurants, tequila, Bear Creek, JT’s, Chatos. Awesome grocery – City Market. miss ski season by 5 months for secret spot fly fishing, ride the Cumbres Toltec narrow gauge railroad, Red Ryder Rodeo every thursday night.
For regional coverage we’ve relied on Topix.com in the past.
“Local news for (fill in a town on your bucket list, or in your itinerary) continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.”
To test it out, search for your current hometown.
Notice and how current and complete the local items in the news are in your search results.
We set up RSS feeds for Topix towns, but soon discovered a major problem.
Like almost every other news outlet, local online papers rely on world and state news to fill their editions (that weren’t relevant).
AND, the vast majority of local stories centered on crime.
So we set up a variety of filters to screen out “jail,” “robbery,”” burglary,” and all the variations of those terms.
As a back up, you might want to try The Paperboy.com which claims they’ve got lists of 12,064 Online Newspapers & ePapers.
And, finally if you’re serious about Pagosa Springs (or Whitefish so far), or about any other town on your growing bucket list, you’ll want to investigate the most comprehensive resource we’ve found – city-data.com.
In Depth Data for Cities and Towns Across the U.S.
Their detailed, statistical data often provide more information than you know what to do with.
They aggregate public records open and available to the public at large and periodically update their information based on the records that these agencies release.
The ratio of number of residents in Pagosa Springs to the number of sex offenders is 71 to 1.
Steps:
25) Compare what “life” was like in those communities before the Great Recession, how resilient each was during the economic downturn, and to what degree did each bounce back after with any “economic hangover.”
30) Review headlines and relevant news as far back as you can find online to surface each community’s unique pulse and identify information necessary to make your decision. Is there a “ticking time bomb” issue you may uncover that eliminates the resort from your bucket list? Search on topix.com.
“I was an aspiring filmmaker,” he said. But I started to see how aspiring to be something was a way to not really try.”
Aspiring Independent Filmmakers
When do we realize it really is time to move on? Time to smell the coffee?
An excerpt from Book One in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find more meaning and happiness in your life.
You know what they say about anything creative – it’s 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Giving It One More Shot
“I was an aspiring filmmaker,” he said.
But I started to see how aspiring to be something was a way to not really try.
If you did that and you failed, well, you didn’t really fail.
I needed to start making things, even if they weren’t great, just making things.”
The grind takes it toll in different ways.
The Show Must Go On
The actor’s wife, still living in their home town, wanted to fly to Los Angeles for the play but wasn’t sure she could make it.
He needed to see her.
He was beginning to realize that daily phone conversations were hardly a substitute for a real marriage.
Not one of his coffee buddies attended his closing night.
But, most importantly his wife wasn’t there either.
Closing Curtains
Maybe she sent flowers?
No such luck.
“I want our life back,” he said after the play was done.
Not long afterward, over the phone, his wife said that she would always hope for his acting dreams, but she wanted a divorce.
He feared that his single-minded pursuit of acting had torn them apart.This quest for an acting career....
My God, it has led me down the road to ruin.
Persist or Pivot? How Do You Know?
And yet …
When do we realize it really is time to move on?
Time to smell the coffee?
Steps:
(4) Nurture your passions and express your uniqueness — no one else can or will, for that matter
(6) Persist and pivot to navigate external threats and opportunities.
(3) Pick options designed to attract better opportunities.You don’t want to miss out on lucrative jobs or entrepreneurial ventures that will fuela real change in your lifestyle.
(7) Choose the ‘Preneur’ business model that brings out the best in you – freelancing, consulting, franchising, Internet marketing or establishing a Knowledge ATM.
