Date men and women from United States / Colorado / Snowmass Village, 55 year old

Date people from Snowmass Village, United States. I have a zest for life. I enjoy skiing, mountain biking ,swiming,camping and live music. I love to laugh and enjoy lots of freinds. I am looking for someone to share life with me to grow together. i am looking for someone who enjoys an active lifestyle.

Meet a soulmate from Snowmass Village, United States. My 4 sisters would say I am probably the funniest person they know, can cheer them up in their darkest hours, sing and play guitar like James Taylor and have brought music into their lives, and I am loyal to a fault. We have a big loving family. I am extremely bright, easily bored by norms, and truly adventurous. From Wisconsin, I moved to Montana, then to Colorado after 15 years of summers out West. I taught college at a top 10 university, got a PhD in Env. Studies, write and edit like a pro, worked in the Forest Service, wore a suit in DC for a year, and started my own remodeling business. I work very hard, and have big dreams... I have achieved a lot of them so far, but the next one is always the most enticing.
I am eclectic, passionate, smart, philosophical, into nature and spirituality, backpacking, river rafting and take it as a fact that we are all to improve ourselves. I am full of wonder, ideas, and dreams, and it's hard to focus when you are interested in everything. Maybe you can straighten me out! I get more pleasure from giving than taking. I hate measuring. We should be beyond that. It's about US, not you and me. I am so tired of competitive, self-serving individualism passing for independence or something healthy. You sacrifice for a greater entity, and too few people understand that is what a relationship is.
My ideal woman is simply beautiful, good, kind, loving, hard-working, from a loving family, not damaged by her past, a Tomboy maybe, playful, and not typical. She is mistaken for a model, but hates vacant beauty or a woman who gets by on her looks. She wants to get out there and get dirty, live, learn, and be real. She uses all her power for good instead of vanity and selfish ends. She is secure, and loves to be teased and go with the joke, and ponders things because she is curious about the world. She's rational and practical, and doesn't have impossible fantasies that there is infinite money or time to indulge her wishes. Like me, she is a professional dreamer who actually starts with some dream and breaks it down into doable steps, wherever that leads. If you want to be in the band, you have to teach yourself an instrument, and find your voice! Like I did! It's not luck, but making your own fate. Becoming something you are not--but want to be! But the real fun is finding a collaborator in your mate who goes into all this crazy stuff with you, and we help each other. It's pretty rare.
I want to have kids, build my own passive solar gorgeous home in the country with wilderness in the backyard and neighbors in the front, possibly grow a great garden and have horses, and other animals, if there were a way to not become slaves to the land. I can be an Irish citizen soon, and would like to walk Ireland, and see New Zealand, Hawaii, and the rest of Europe. So, no princesses, please, no damaged people who can't trust or dream or fully bond (sorry, but I paid my dues with your type), no manipulators. I want to build something, and those who know me know I really can do incredible things. I just don't want to do it alone, or dragging a mule up the hill they said they wanted to climb! Love isn't someplace that you fall, it's something that you do.