VIDA COLORADO
Stories of travel, expat life, and history from our home in the Netherlands
A family abroad
Vida Colorado is where I share travel stories, life in the Netherlands, and the experiences that shape our family’s life overseas. From weekend escapes to chasing down history, this is a place for our stories from the road and from home.
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Travel
Stories from the road, from family weekends away to the places that stay with us.
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Why We Went Up There
Not the Balkans The Baltics are one of those spots that confounds Americans. If we…
life abroad
Becoming Dutchish
Our family’s story of life in the Netherlands, learning as we go and finding our footing one day at a time.
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You Know it When You See it
Aside from a Chinese couple sitting at a table in the corner taking photos of each other, I was…
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Top 10 Christmas Markets
Europe’s Christmas Markets The story of Europe’s Christmas markets begins in the late Middle Ages, when winter fairs were…
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Amsterdam with Kids
First of all, I do not live in Amsterdam, I live 30 minutes to the south in Amstelveen, for…
history and memory
Letters Home
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The Same Streets
I realized that I should have worn a coat. The cold spring air in the evening was not pleasant without a coat – I could see my breath, and the rum St. James was not doing…
Part fiction, part fact, Letters Home traces my grandfather’s wartime path through Europe and the stories that still echo through our family.
Taking Flight
In November 2024, I began the long process of earning a commercial pilot’s license. Follow along with me as I document and share the successes and bumps along the way.
Statistics Since Arriving in NL
Coffee. Bikes. Big Airplanes leaving from AMS, little ones leaving from the grass field in Hilversum. So Netherlands.
24 Countries
With Kids!
257 Takeoffs and Landings
In a Single Engine Piston
3,102 Coffees
Fuel
4,6920 km
On The Bakfiets Cargo Bike
