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 […]

Traveling with Blue Cat: Yellowstone National Park

While camping at the Grand Teton National Park last summer Blue Cat also took a trip to the Yellowstone National Park. Without having to pack up and change campsites he and his friends some some amazing sights (and sites) in a very active geothermal area. This will be a short post – just a brief […]

Traveling with Blue Cat: Grand Teton National Park

At the end of the summer Blue Cat took a camping trip to the Grand Teton National Park. (He also went to Yellowstone National Park – but that will be another blog.) He and his friends camped in the park itself and used it as a base of adventures of the mountainous kind. Getting there […]

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 has a Dam Scary Time

It doesn’t look scary in this picture, but it was – at least to Blue Cat. This is the Glen Canyon Dam, which holds back the Colorado River and helps form Lake Powell. Amazing engineering, yes, but scary? Let Blue Cat explain. Blue Cat was taking a trip to Arizona to meet a new dog […]

Blue Cat Goes to the United Kingdom

Blue Cat usually stays in the United States when he travels, but he recently had the opportunity to visit the lovely town of Guildford in the United Kingdom. While he was not clear on why he went there (something about a Non Disclosure Agreement), he did say that the trip was very memorable. Here are […]

Blue Cat Goes Fishing

Today was Labor Day (a celebration of the contribution of workers) in the United States and so Blue Cat got the day off. His scribe’s son set up a fishing trip for Blue Cat and his scribe, so off they went to Rampart Reservoir. Located in the Pikes Peak National Forest in Colorado, the reservoir […]

Enter Blue Cat’s Disney Princess Contest

Blue Cat just returned from a fantastic vacation at the Disneyland Resort in California. In celebration, he is holding his first-ever Internet contest. Here’s the deal: The first five people to respond via email with the correct names of the princesses that Blue Cat met will receive an autographed picture of Blue Cat himself! Send […]