Well, don't want to gloat too much (since life has a funny way of coming around behind you and punching you in the back of the head if you do!), but just finished moving into my own house, no longer a mere landless peasant, but a country gentleman with land! OK, only a quarter acre, but she's mine, or she will be in 30 short years! Best part is it backs to open farmland, and has a completely unobstructed view of the Rockies and Longs Peak (14,000+ feet) from every part of the back yard and west facing side of the house (including my bedroom). It sits just high enough to be able to see over any future subdivisions they might build, unless the buildings are 3 or more stories high. And it is bascially just a couple turns out of my driveway to back country roads around Boulder and down to Eisenhower Tunnel. Did exactly that the weekend before we closed on her, and rode over Loveland Pass (11,000') to Arapahoe Basin and Breckenridge, then down through South Park to the back side of Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs. Oh, and the wife loves it too, I guess that also matters!
