Although I mostly avoid thinking about the long ago, too long, amount of time I lived in Colorado...
Colorado is a good place to live, according to a lot of people, my preference is for other places to make a home for me, myself and I. While its an okay place to live, it definitely was not my place to live.
When 1 out of twenty experiences is positive with the other 19 being pain filled, bordering on nightmarish, its a safe bet that living in Colorado can be good for some people. Less so for me. In the spirit of remaining positive, here are some of the best aspects of living in Colorado. Having lived all over the world, I realized that water that is from each area of the world has different properties, slight variations in flavor.
There are the 8 captured free flowing fountains in Manitou Springs that have been bubbling up from the earth for over 10,000 years.
Colorado tap water is the best I have ever tasted! It has a very earthy flavor. Its slightly sweet.
In Steamboat Springs, Sterling & Rifle the water has a very slight birchy scent with an even less perceptible birchy flavor, to me. You know, as I am the drinking, skinny dipping water connoisseur.
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As a child, living in Michigan, there was little else to drink besides water. Dad had his beer & whiskey. Mom had her Pepsi which she occasionally shared. Mom & Dad had their substance addiction to coffee. As most people in the world, do.
Other than that it was water most of the time. As a child, as I still am, one who hates to drink milk. Most of the drinking water that was available came out of the garden hose.
Turn it on, wait a minute or so for the water to flush the dirt & critters out. If it was a very warm late spring or early summer day, it was necessary to let the water run until it came out of the hose, ice cold coming up from underground. Yum.
The tap water in Hawai'i had a heavily fluoridated taste, I could even smell the fluoride. I became a bit concerned about it when I brought my first & second precious daughters into the world. Born in paradise, it was a wonderful start in life. Still, I went full on Tigress when it concerned my babies, the water I drank or used to bathe them.
Moving from Hawai'i to Nebraska (Offutt AFB, Omaha, NE), the Nebraska tap water tasted like mud & mold to me. Even after it went through a filter, the traces of the flavor was still there.
As a military family, we moved to Europe from Nebraska. Some parts of Europe had never recovered from the damage done in WWII. The water that was served in public was never out of the tap. It was always bottled water. Often it was fizzy mineral water from a bottle.
The equivalent of $2. per bottle. $.50 extra if ice was ordered with it.
At first, it was a bit tricky, figuring out what the price would be in USD to decide if a cost was worth it in DM or FF or BF. Traveling from one European country to another was like crossing from Colorado into Wyoming or Georgia into Florida except the language of signs changed. Many aspects of the culture changed. Germany was free of roadside litter. When crossing into France, there was a bit more road litter, yet, each country had its' own charming aspects.
When I lived in Germany, I did half of my grocery shopping in France. My 4 darlings were age 1 year of age to 9 years, in a Dodge Caravan going 130 kph (80 mph) on the autobahn.
With the average exchange rate at FF 5.65 to USD $1.00, I could buy $500. worth of groceries for USD $100. to feed our family of 6 people. My darlings were promised French eclairs until the eclairs were gone on the trip home as a reward for their patience on the drive to the shopping area in France. As we neared the area of the shopping Usually a 45 minute drive. We knew we were close to the exit we needed to take when we saw this.
Many Americans thought this indicated a town named Ausfahrt, a very LARGE town because the sign is a constant on the autobahn. It's actually the German word for "Exit".
Then, when we saw this sign, we knew we were 10 minutes away from CORA, one in a chain of large one stop shopping areas.
I had lived in Texas during my USAF BMT & schools. It was a very eye opening time. My first time to actually live outside my parents home, to progress into new adulthood
My first taste of actual Texas water on Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas tasted a lot like FREEDOM!
So much was new, fun, a bit scary at times. I paid very scant attention to the flavor of the water.
When I moved to Texas in 2012, I moved to a very small almost rural area. Yupp, ha ha.
Small Town USA. Pop: 800. It seemed to me that it must include horses, cows & 4 chihuahuas per family or 1 pit bull or cattle dog.
There couldn't possibly have been 800 people walking around.
It seemed that the water filtration was an ongoing issue in the small town where I lived. I knew to let the water from the tap sit in a clear glass for a bit. If brown sediment or white flakes or both were visible I knew I had to do something. I bought a water filtration system as well as a 3 gallon Brita water filter container for the fridge.
I drink a lot of water every day, a good habit. When I was able to taste the higher quality water flavor from a Brita dispenser even better than the more pricey bottled water for sale, I knew I had the best drinking water possible.
Does water quality truly matter so much?
YES!
Availability of clean water for washing clothing, bathing, growing crops, cooking is a bare essential. Also, providing clean healthy water for livestock is crucial to the health & prosperity for the population of people everywhere.
The progressiveness along with prosperity of countries worldwide directly correlates to the availability of clean water free from debris, chemicals, whether natural or otherwise.
Every morning, after washing my face & brushing my teeth, I take a container of 16 oz water then, chug it down. For my own personal reasons I have never had to depend on the chemical substance in coffee to help me wake up.
My morning water feels so clean, so fresh as I feel the infusion of ice cold freshness brings my senses to a tingle.
The best part of waking up is water in my....
