From Yarn to Stone: Blue Cat in Badlands National Park

Blue Cat’s summers always include an epic road trip, mixing camping and hiking with visits to some of America’s iconic locations. This year’s South Dakota road trip included 4 days exploring Badlands National Park and the neighboring town of Wall. Buckle your seatbelts for a journey that involved intense heat, stars and satellites, quick-moving storms, the resulting […]

Blue Cat Storms the Castle (and the Food Court)

July 2025 – Larkspur, CO Blue Cat doesn’t need an excuse to don a metaphorical cloak and wander among knights, jesters, and turkey legs the size of small tree branches. But this time, he had one: it was his scribe’s birthday. What better way to celebrate than the Colorado Renaissance Festival — a place where history, fantasy, […]

Blue Cat Goes Comedic

Crocheted travel-blogger Blue Cat recounts attending Randy Feltface at Comedy Works in Denver, May 2025—plus dining at Lucy Restaurant and shocking comedic moments.

Traveling With Blue Cat: Staying with a Polar Bear in Toulouse

Blue Cat has been to Toulouse, France quite a few times now and has stayed at a variety of hotels. Today he wants to talk about the latest place he’s stayed and why it’s his new “go-to” location. But first – here’s where Blue Cat has stayed on his other visits, and why you might […]

Traveling wtih Blue Cat: Eating in Toulouse

Blue Cat spent a week in Toulouse, France this month to meet his colleagues from the French office of his company. While the meetings were great and the traveling was interesting, one of the real pleasures of the trip was the food. Blue Cat is not sure if you can get a bad meal in […]

Traveling with Blue Cat: Insights from an International Trip

Blue Cat is travelling again – this time to Toulouse, France for more work meetings. Since he’s already written about the destination, this time he’s going to write about the trip itself. Blue Cat’s journey started with making reservations. Doesn’t sound like a real issue and it wasn’t at first. United Airlines’ site was very […]

Blue Cat goes Back to Canada

Blue Cat is really enjoying his new job. Not only does he get to meet a lot of interesting people, but also gets to travel again. Except for having to travel Carry On Luggage Class (one step below Coach but two steps above Checked Baggage Class) it’s really pretty fun. And last year he got […]

Blue Cat Goes To Toulouse (France)

Blue Cat’s opportunities for international travel have really increased due to his new job – not only does his new company (Loft Orbital) have an office in France, but one of their primary suppliers is there as well. So Blue Cat got to go to Toulouse, France recently and had an enormously great time. Toulouse […]

Blue Cat Goes To Quebec City

Blue Cat has a new job (well, his scribe does) and last week it involved traveling to a distant foreign land known as Canada. Yes, Canada, the home of Tim Horton’s (arguably one of the best donut franchises in the world) and the other (for Americans) side of Niagara Falls. But Blue Cat got to […]

Blue Cat Gets Sand in his Ears

As you may know, Blue Cat is getting more and more into Camping. Yes, Camping with a capital “C” since it’s that big a deal. And there are so many places to go. Blue Cat’s latest Camping trip was to the Great Sand Dunes National Park. He’d been there once before in the late fall, […]