I’m in Denver for a webdesign conference that starts Monday. It’s a single stream conference – one thing at a time! – so I’m looking forward to that after all the library conferences I go to with multiple events in any time block, resulting in blocks where there are like 5 things I want to see, plus other blocks with none.
We came a few days early to visit with Ethan.
This morning we’ve been hanging out in cafes in the trendy LoHi/Lower Highlands neighborhood of Denver, where our airbnb is located.
First we went for coffee.
Black Eye Coffee
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Then we went for breakfast. I was voting for getting bagels or bakery to take back to the airbnb, but that didn’t work out, so we went Gallop Cafe. I had avocado toast. We went past the building with the lacy exterior on the way to coffee, and I liked it so well I took another pic on the way to food.
Gallop Cafe
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This afternoon we’ll go up to Boulder and wander around on the walking paths. Maybe find that Chinese restaurant that Mark likes.
My favorite thing about our airbnb is these big double doors at the entrance. Denver (unlike Madison) is really rich in old commercial property that is rapidly being re-done into housing & businesses. The restaurant we went to last night used to be a mortuary. I thought our coffee place this AM was a corner grocery, but the website says opened by Coors beer in the early 1900s, and a speakeasy in the 1920s, and the airbnb is part of a huge red brick corner building that I think must’ve had shops, although the ceilings are really high, so maybe light industry of some type.
