Shooting for the Moons: Lost Marbles owners identify need, launch Longmont toy store

LONGMONT — Some people thought Darren and Lillianna Moon had lost their marbles when they chucked their comfortable lifestyle in Houston to move to Longmont, knowing only that they wanted to start some sort of business.

Au contraire. “Moving to Colorado was a no-brainer,” said Darren Moon, who lived in Alaska and New Mexico before Houston. “We plan to put roots here. We did our research to find the right community that was walkable. It was a find-our-tribe kind of thing.”

And when it came to what type of business to embark on, Moon…