John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 58mwe went outside at 6:30AM and could see a bunch of stars from our front garden. it's so dark at night here that star-gazing is possible from almost anywhere. 020
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 20hsort of? we’re nomads + stay in new places 30 days at a time. we’re five months into full-time travel + we repeated stays in both Breck + Taos. walking distance to the Plaza. up next: Zion, Palm Desert, San Diego + Morro Bay. that puts us to MAR when we head to EU for a few years. 120
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 20hhappy hour at Taos Mesa Brewing again. in JUN we lived across the street. it’s still walkable but we drove this time. 130
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026bacon eggs spam posts jerry and spam has just a little bit of jerry 040
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026i try to avoid pejorative mental health terms, but it's really difficult when people like this remain in the sphere of public influence. are they just evil instead? 2100
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026we're going out to the edge of the gorge this evening (or tomorrow, depends on weather/clouds) to watch the sunset + then do some star gazing. the night sky gets pitch-black here, more than we've seen almost anywhere (night sky over the Ligurian Sea at Monterosso el Mare was pretty dark, too) 010
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026just misread 'gentle yoga' as 'genital yoga'. those are different 000
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026hmmm, seems most of the videos didn't upload. i'll try again. 110
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Here are a few videos of the balloons. Only the Dawn Patrol lifted off - all these remianed inflated and ready to go aloft, but never did. There were a lot of really creative balloons. The Smoky Bear was neat to see. 120
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We attended the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta this morning. There were a couple hundred balloons (maybe more) and we saw the Dawn Patrol. The way those first nine balloons lit up the pre-dawn sky was amazing. They didn't do the mass ascension at 7:00A as expected, as the conditions weren't right. 020
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026at The Shed in Santa Fe. it’s packed. bar seating only for us as we got here two minutes after it opened. 000
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026heading down to Albuquerque today for the Balloon Festival dawn patrol tomorrow morning. it'll be an early day so we're staying there tonight. lunch in Santa Fe at The Shed. fun day ahead. 010
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026[ just got to Taos after a 4.5 drive ] watch: “you should stand, slug” me: watch: me: 020
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026we tell our watches to shut up when they nags us abt either standing - while we are standing - or exercise after we’ve already done our first walk. the algorithms have weird edge cases 110
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026now in month six of the slow travel. hopping in the car soon to head to Taos as we begin the slow move southwest. donated more clothes yesterday as we pare down further. if it doesn’t fit on our backs (+ maybe chests w/ a reverse day pack) we aren’t keeping it. lotta lessons in these 11 months. 010
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026sure, Jan also: in ‘80 drove from STL to Columbus OH w/ my best friend in a rented van to pick up a ‘56 Corvette frame. it barely fit. 010
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026throw in a tube sock w/ those quarters + we can make something happen 110
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026yep. when i was still working, teams wld ask me abt stuff all the time + yet (often) display no desire to learn how to do it themselves. 000
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i love a good desert. we have a bakery here in Breck that we’ve visited 19 times for cakes + cookies. 010
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I didn’t initially understand that it was a brownie + gelato… looks really good 120
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026happy hour at Luigi’s in Breck. chatted w/ the owner a bit, let him know we enjoyed his place (visited four times across our two month-long stays) local connections are the lifeblood of travel. loving this adventure 010
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026that is an outage. demand to speak to a manag-- no, wait 100
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026whoops - not owner, as he'd sold the shoe company prior. he was the founder of rockport. details are mostly clear, but after 27 yrs it's a bit blurry 020
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026you hate to see it * * you do not, in fact, hate to see it 040
John Minnihan @jbminn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the context there was that the owner of rockport shoes had used the well, liked it + then acquired it in the past. he decided to commercialize forum software + changed the name to 'well engaged', iirc. i was there modernizing their infra just before they merged w/ Delphi in Cambridge. 130