Think I've done this before a few times. The pic is perhaps a bit less obvious than it might have been, but still there are no prizes for guessing where we are (again), preparing to do a bit of Blue Skies Research:
The more important question, for which a prize is definitely appropriate is...where is our luggage? At Leeds Airport the sheep powering the treadmill had gone on strike so all computers were down and our baggage tags were written down by hand. That added to the delay on the flight down to Heathrow topped off with terminal change there left us not too surprised when nothing came off the carousel at Denver. Of course this had to be the one trip where we didn't get round to putting a bit of emergency clothing in our carry-on bags...but luckily our friend Rob managed to score some free Googlewear for us. One bag containing most of a bicycle has appeared so far (via a disgruntled courier hammering on our door at 4:30 am) but no signs of the other two bags with another bicycle and all our clothes...
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Along the Platte?
(Having checked what and where the Platte is...) it seems you are basically correct, in that it's a tributary. But we're in Boulder again, the photo was along the South Boulder Creek to be precise which is close to our appartment and a lovely place for a gentle jog.
More excitingly, the final parts of the bicycle jigsaw puzzle arrived late last night and we managed to cycle to NCAR this morning, where we will be working for the next few weeks.
Yeah, there are probably hundreds of similar views in the northeast Colorado flats, so given I knew you were in that area it wan't much of a guess (other than having to know trees => watercourse).
Paid?
Actually managed to get expensed from a couple of different sources, which is nice as we'd basically decided to come anyway before trying to ask :-) And being here combines well with the AGU in San Francisco in Dec (which jules and I were both invited to speak at), so is relatively good value all round. Hoping the NCAR hill gets easier the longer we stay...
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