We arrived in Boulder unscathed on Sunday, June 6.  Daisy appears to be fully recovered from the trauma of 1,800 miles in an Xterra.  She even seems unaffected by her jaunt into the wet, smelly schmootz beside our hotel in Lincoln, NE.  She stank up the car all the way to Boulder and paid for her decision with a bath at Whole Pets as soon as we got into town.  Now she's happy as a clam pointing the prairie dogs that squawk at her just outside the dog park fence.

Our new OTAF office in Boulder is already up and running.  So, place your orders, folks!  Stop agonizing over air filters...let us do that for you.  It's our job and, frankly, we're pretty darn good at it.

Filed under: Mark Leffers • OTAF Dog Daisy • Digression • Air Filters • Colorado • Founders' Random Adventures

After 20 years of wonderful friends but just a hair too much traffic in the Washington, DC, metro area, the founders of On Time Air Filters and their trusty dog Daisy have decided to move west!  

It's been a dream for both of us to have a chance to open the front door and be in the mountains (or foothills, at least), and we settled on Boulder for the great air, great hiking, fly fishing for Mark, prairie-dog-annoying for Daisy, and the wonderful tech startup community in Boulder, Colorado.  This morning we loaded up the U-haul in Maryland, tacked it onto this not-so-clean-air-friendly SUV and made it happen.  Or at least we're on the way.

Next stop: Cedar Point -- the Amazement Park.  Sue worked there for 3 summers as a college kid. It was a blast waking up in dorms on lake erie, and at 8am riding one assigned roller coaster 10 times in  a row to warm up the rails (and reduce the risk) for the real customers.  Highlight of my time there was being on duty (um, er, and in charge) on the day the "Space Spiral" got stuck on the top of the tower for..that's right...9 hours.  Only 350 feet up, sure no bathrooms, hey, who says that old-peoples' ride lacks excitement!

More updates on the way.  Thanks for some great memories, Washington, and looking forward to finding at least one friend, and some new OTAF loyals in the sunny climes of Colorado.

Filed under: Sue Heilbronner • Founders' Random Adventures • Digression • Startup • Colorado