Fitting In: Too Many, Too Few

    Fitting in--where? with who (or is it whom)?

   Saturday, we took the light rail to downtown Denver to check out Taste to Colorado.  The festival originated in it's current form in 1985.  We remember attending at some point before 2009 when we moved out of our house and began traveling all year.  

    This visit, we realized we didn't fit in with the crowd that attends such festivals.  We have lived too many years and we have too few (read 0) tattoos.  In other words, almost everyone was under the age of 40 and most had numerous tattoos.  A far cry from the people we see regularly in Arizona in our 55+ resort, or in most RV parks around the country.  Our generation is obviously out of step with modern culture.

    The festival features both music and food.

There were numerous food trucks. This is called The Party Truck.  I don't think they served food but each compartment offers a TV screen and different music.

Many of the restaurants offered outdoor seating.

This water park offered fun for children.

Some of the entertainment went beyond music.

 

We saw murals on buildings.

The Daniels and Fisher building is 325 feet high and when it was built in 1910, it was the tallest building between the Mississippi River and California.  John's senior class sneak included visiting the tower and going to the top.  My class didn't have a senior sneak.  That would have been tough to arrange--there were 308 of us in the class.  John's class had 54 students.

    We didn't take any photos of the tattoo-covered young women and men.  That would have been rude.  But trust me, there were lots of them.

    Waiting for the light rail to return to our apartment.

    Our return trip on the light rail took us by the buildings that once housed Gates Rubber Company.  My dad spent most of his working life there as a cost accountant.  The company offered summer jobs to the children of employees--a form of financial or scholarship assistance.  I worked there two summers.  I rode to work with my dad and he always included me in the morning coffee gathering in the cafeteria before work began.

    Downtown Denver includes several cow sculptures.  I get cows in Colorado--a major cattle ranching economy.  

As we travel around the country, we see many different conversions of Airstream trailers.  This one was one of the food service vehicles at the festival.  Our Airstream is still for travel.  Some day, perhaps someone else will convert it for some other use.

  We did enjoy our walk up and down 16th Street.  And we split a sandwich from the Corner Bakery.  This is the cool tile floor in the bakery.