Mike Pope is on vacation, back to his roots in Denver, as he's been blogging about it. My favorite quote, so far, as it is something I really can relate to:

Some people, when traveling, go shopping for local crafts, others visit historic sites. Me, I visit bookstores. This is absurd, since books are books, and I need more books about as much as I need more debt, but I find the ambiance of a good bookstore irresistible. The Tattered Cover has small floor space, so they expand upward for a total of four floors, I think is. They have claustrophobically high shelves, not my favorite arrangement, but somehow I managed to find 4 or 5 books that I probably could have gotten at home, too, but ... oh well.

I know that more than once, Mary's thought it weird that I want to go to a bookstore when we are travelling somewhere.

It is a good read about Mike's journey back to Denver for a reunion, as I get some of the same feelings when I head back to Seattle (where I grew up) from Cleveland (where I live now).