Due to technical difficulties, we have restarted this blog.  This means I lost several entries.  That’s fine.  New is better, right?  Welcome back to Zurekbrau!

We Zureks have been having quite a week.  New, old, up, and down.  Rich started out Saturday with a visit to the Nissan dealer to look at a new truck.  After doing his research, it came down to the Nissan Frontier and the Toyota Tacoma.  It was time for the test drive to check out […]

So I’ve neglected my duties for the blog. That could be because so much has happened. I’ll try to do a recap for you. 17th Rich Buys a Truck With the old Dodge having some problems, Rich finally realized that he needed a new truck. That’s not so bad. He got a good 15 years […]

Another slow week for the blog.  It’s not that nothing happens.  I just don’t feel the spirit to write about it.  It doesn’t sound interesting to me and therefore, probably not interesting to anyone else.  Now that made my life sound boring.  I assure you, it is not. Sascha makes sure that I have things […]

Saturday was the big day. We hosted a pig roast in honor of Rich’s 50th birthday, Rick’s 18th birthday, and Rick’s high school graduation. It was a stellar year for events in the Zurek family. I had called up Smith Farms way back in March to arrange for a pig roast. These are the guys […]

Remember I told you about the Kiwis on Tour that showed up at Bonnieville Salt Flats while we were there?  Rich found them on Facebook!  Here is a link to the group we saw that day.  https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.377666138962720.87627.111084082287595&type=1

For the last time on this vacation, Rich woke up again. Today is the last day on the road.  We have to get from Des Moines, IA to Holiday Hills.  The day was going to prove a warm one, so the air conditioning was on from the start.  No hanging either arm out of the […]

Yet again, Rich woke up. From our drive yesterday, you remember that we beat it out of Colorado ahead of some pretty nasty storms.  We had heard on the TV that tornados had touched down outside of Ft Collins and Greeley. Our hotel for the evening turned out to be a renovated thing from the […]

Addendum:  Added a paragraph below on Rick and the swallows.   And….Rich woke up today. Yesterday, we had a long driving day.  Rich had wanted to stop and see the Colorado National Monument Park just outside of Grand Junction.  We decided that since our drive today was shorter, we would take the time to go […]

You guessed it, Rich woke up today. Allergies all messed up this morning.  I’m hoping it’s from the cigarette smoke and will go away.  My nose and eyes keep running all through the drive.  When I stopped for gas in Utah, my eyes were running so bad; it looked like I was crying.  The attendant […]