We recently moved to Colorado and purchased about a dozen travel guides to help us get oriented. Oddball Colorado was one we just sort of grabbed in the melee. My wife and I would burst out in spontaneous laughter as we read it. Rather than read it cover to cover, I found myself bouncing around from page to page. Just when I thought I had finished it I would discover another golden nugget I had overlooked. It was a sad day when I realized I had finally finished it!

Now all other travel guides seem inconsequential. Pohlen identifies the natural wonders that really matter (to me!). The cheesy roadside attractions that seemed to capture my father's big station wagon with their tractor beams. Reading the book is like taking a ride with my dad all over again.

Now I've moved onto Oddball Illinois. And I thought nothing could make me want to visit Illinois!

We live locally and use this book whenever we head up to Ouray. It is very accurate and we never feel like we have been led astray by Kelvin! We have found some beautiful places because of this book. A must for anybody hiking in this amazing area of the country!

This book is an excellent source of all things outdoorsy in the Denver/Boulder area. I'm a native, and some of the activities in the book are new to me (namely scuba diving in Colorado lakes). This would be especially good for someone new to the Denver area looking for places to run, bike, hike, etc. Also provides contact information for various organizations if you want more information on a particular activity.

This book is a carefully crafted, beautiful book of poems, a kind of secular cathedral, a refuge, a vision into which readers may enter. "Camille Monet Sur Son Lit De Mort" ("Camille Monet on her deathbed") is one of the most powerful elegies written in decades of American poetry, and the title poem, "Palma Cathedral," is a breathtaking ten-section poem constructing a vision out of what is lost, leaving the reader restored, envisioning. This is one of the best books to appear in years, never solipsistic or confessional or strained or merely "learned."

This book is well researched. This book is an excellent resource for a look at the Native Americans who spent time in Colorado, beginning with the earliest people in Colorado. This book gives the readers a clear picture of who was where in the history of Colorado. This is a super resource for teachers.

Look for more interesting work from this author.

Each page will bring either laughter or tears. I found my emotions greatly touched by the book. It is very evident that the author strives to live life to it's fullest and touch the heart and soul of those she meets along the way.

Pigs Over Colorado was a fun read for my children - they loved getting to know the author's children - shown in the book as the five Colorado sky-piggies. Each page they got into new predicaments or made new discoveries about Colorado. My youngest just liked finding the five hidden Colorado animals on every page. I liked the pigs-eye view of Colorado map - my kids referred back to it every time they finished reading about a different vacation spot, and they unknowingly got a real feel for the way Colorado is layed out. We all loved the colorful, vibrant paintings of our favorite places in Colorado. I didn't care much for the visit to Elitches - but, of course, it's my kids' favorite page.

Written by Morris Cafky and John Haney, this is THE book on the history of the trolley systems that ran in Colorado Springs until 1932. Very well illustrated with contemporary photographs of the street cars in Colorado Springs and backed up by informative, well written text it shows the years of newspaper writing experience of Morris Cafky. According to the Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation, the book may soon be updated and back in print again.

If you have a home in South Park, this is very interesting stuff. Great history. And to think these things happened in our back yard during the Wild West days! Have not read the North and Middle Park sections, but I am sure they are just as much fun for folks from those parts of Colorado.

I had to read Macbeth for school and I didn't understand it. I read this book and it made Shakespeare fun.