On the ground at Blogorado

 

We had a safe journey to our destination in southern Colorado.  There's a new hotel in town, a normal modern traveler's hotel/motel configuration, but light years ahead of the old fleapits that had been the only available accommodation ever since we started gathering here more than a decade ago.  We gratefully booked a room, complete with modern, comfortable beds, and enjoyed the best night's sleep we've ever had here.  Let's hear it for progress!

Our local restaurant hangout, that we habitually refer to as the Obligatory Cow Reference (a play on its name), has undergone a makeover since we were last here.  The interior is now modernized, with a dark color scheme that none of us particularly like;  but the food is as always, and plenty of it.  The few of us who arrived yesterday had supper there last night, and we'll be gathering for breakfast in a short while.  I'm looking forward to their breakfast burritos, and chicken fried steak smothered in their chile verde, and flapjacks the size of cartwheels.  You'll gather that food is a major feature of our get-togethers.  Don't come to Blogorado if you're dieting!

It looks like this year's gathering will be smaller than usual, as various other demands on their time and money have forced a number of our regulars to regretfully bow out of Blogorado 2023.  That's OK, though.  We'll be gathering at the Farm Family residence later today, chasing this year's crop of barn kittens (and trying to avoid the temptation to take another one home with us), and catching up on a year's worth of gossip and fun and games.  I'll keep you posted.

Thank you to all who prayed for traveling mercies for us.  The trip was smooth and trouble-free.  Let's hope the rest of our travels are in the same vein.

More tomorrow.

Peter