Enter Through the Gift Shop
Astute Oh Those Hollands! readers may have already discovered this, but we are incredibly excited to announce the Grand Opening of the official OTH Gift Shop! Featuring some of our favorite travel photographs over the years including our recent adventures, these items make the perfect gift for your friends and loved ones. And, of course, […]
Halloween is a BOO-tiful Time in NOLA đź‘»
We’ve been only lucky enough to celebrate my favorite holiday in New Orleans once, but it is most definitely on our short list to go back. One of our dreams is in fact to walk/ride in the Krewe of Boo Halloween parade one day! It’s truly amazing and I say that having been to Mardi […]
That’s Top Notch, Baby!
Birthed one year after I was born (!!), Top Notch Burger in Austin, Texas is a true institution. Most famous for its starring roll in Dazed and Confused, it’s embraced its, now very retro, 70’s design. It even has retained their car hop service resisting the “pave over the parking lot” ethos that so many […]
Santa Fe Skies & Art Abound
We always enjoy ourselves when we spend time in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico. Not surprisingly, since we’re avowed foodies, there’s plenty to keep our tummies happy, which also makes us delighted to share some of our finds and recs with you. Our campgrounds for our month-long stay included the KOA east of town […]
Lounging in Lava Hot Springs
It’s hot outside and your mind is focused on just one thing: Getting and staying cool. So of course you head to Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. Now, the name doesn’t engender a sense of cold, does it? But bear with me here. This tiny Main Street-only town which also serves as a magnet for heat-oppressed […]
Sweet Sophia
Over of the toughest things about being on the road and our current lifestyle is missing family and friends. Happy Hour zooms help, but of course there’s no replacing face to face, hug to hug so we’ll take any and all opportunity to get back together when we can. This past Thanksgiving when we were […]
A Week at Camp Airstream – Yellowstone
Despite being well into our 3rd year in our Airstream, we’d never been to a rally or organized Airstream event until this summer. Color us chagrined perhaps, but the first two years simply exploring beautiful Colorado was its own reward. We sure made up for it with Camp Airstream — Yellowstone though! The best part […]
My Holy Water
They say you’ll know you’re a plunger if after your first plunge, you emerge red skinned, goose bumped with teeth chattering, and immediately want to do it again. Hi. I’m Anne. And I’m a Cold Plunger. After hearing so much buzz about cold plunging, reading Katherine May in How to Winter, watching the Bad Sisters […]
Let’s Go to a Fair!
We shared some of the incredible rodeo photos Bill captured at Manassa, Colorado’s two-day Pioneer Days. But in addition to the rodeo and demolition derby, they also have a little carnival action that night. Since it’s starting to get into Spring Fair Season™, we thought this little selection might get you in the mood. In […]
New Orleans in a Week
This winter, while still in New Orleans, we “hosted” our friends m&g down from Virginia for a week of revelry, or at least of food and drink. Because they’re among our dearest friends, and because we could use an excuse—any excuse—to further our culinary research of the Big Easy, we set forth to design the […]
It’s a Sign
You’ve probably heard the saying “Keep Austin Weird”, which we definitely should keep doing, but I’m going to propose another unofficial motto, “Keep Austin Lit”. No, not in the 420, Mary Jane way (my nose has let me know that there’s plenty of that already), but in a neon sign way. We’re not talking about […]
Birthday Surprise: The Derailers at Albert Dance Hall
Annie always seems to come up with the best birthday surprises for me. I’d initially indicated a preference for a bottle of tasty single-malt Scotch as a birthday gift since space in an Airstream is limited and it was a consumable gift. But she offered me a choice: whisky or an heretofore unknown experience. Thank […]
Happy Mardi Gras, Y’all!​
Fat Tuesday is officially TODAY so we thought we’d celebrate the occasion with some of the festive and fun decorations we saw last month before we headed out ahead of the big snowstorm that hit the southern town. While a little snow doesn’t faze us too much, New Orleans is wholly unprepared for something which […]
Test your gear before you need it
Our first season with Ellie we camped in a gorgeous, tree-filled spot in Gore Creek in the White River National Forest near Vail, Colorado in early September, just as the mornings were getting brisk and the trees thinking about their winter break. At this point we’d had some practice boondocking, but this was the first […]
Get Your Ass to Creede
There are many, many reasons to love Colorado and the annual Donkey Dash in the high altitude mountain town of Creede is one of them. Every Summer the town’s population swells (during Winter the donkeys would likely outweigh the number of residents!) with spectators to watch runners and their donkeys climb the mountains through the […]
The breakneck pace of the Tour de Fat
As you can see below, racers donned their speediest outfits and circled, round and round, about downtown Fort Collins this summer. They celebrated bicycles and beer, the official symbols of the great state of Colorado. It’s a high-profile race, and the costumes aided in their quest for endless circling amid friends—both new and old—to work […]
Coffeeshop Wisdom
Sometimes it’s just nice to get out of the rig and work in a coffee shop (or brewery or distillery!) for a change of scenery. One of our favorite Breckenridge coffee shops is Mountain View Coffee and in their restroom is this painted sign with a wise saying on it: Your mind is the garden,your […]
Telluride Balloon Fest
There are very few things that can make me get up on a Saturday morning (ok, any morning) at o’dark thirty on a 40 degree morning in Telluride in JUNE, but the promise of several hot air balloons lit up and cascading over the mountain valley town would be one of them. Oh, that and […]
Quiet Louisiana Mornings
White heron waitingmorning fog blinds the impatienta fish captured, snatch!
Broken Hearts in the Crescent City
We awoke this New Year’s morning, having slept in from reassuring two stressed-from-the-fireworks cats at midnight, to a text from a dear friend. Are you two ok? Just seeing the news It took only a second to see why on nola.com with a story with weight far larger than my phone’s small screen size could […]
Christmas in New Orleans
Many of you may know New Orleans is our soul city. We met here for one of our first dates while living in different cities, and it’s where we tied the knot back in 2001 (the weekend following 9/11) on what would have been my late parents 39th wedding anniversary. We’ve visited several times over […]
Photo locations in this year’s holiday card
Without further ado, note that for a couple of these letters (at least when this post was written), the posts associated with that photo are still getting drafted. But stay tuned! They will be published soon. C – Tour de Fat bike parade in Ft. Collins O – Aspens in the fall hiking up Marshall […]
Aspens at Marshall Pass in the fall
Last year it seemed like we nailed autumn in Colorado, hanging in the SW part of the state just as aspens around the San Juan mountains peaked. This year sadly it seems like we’re a couple of weeks late. We hung out at Sylvan Lake for a week before heading south to O’Haver Lake, about […]
Everyone’s Trying to Hold on for 8 Seconds
Professional photographers know one (among many) adage: Half of getting access is looking like you belong there. That’s the tack I took to photographing the Manassa Pioneer Days rodeo this summer. Grandstand seats along with everyone else are rarely the best spots for making good photos. Another adage is: If your photos aren’t good enough, […]