On our way home from a truly wonderful family vacation in Durango Colorado. It was one of the more grown-up vacations I've ever taken. The 6 of us (Diane. Max, Jac, Gabe and Raya and I) spent the week in a rented house, with a rented car and ate rented food… We packed a ton of stuff into each day … lots of it outdoors. We hiked, ran, rafted/kayaked and visited ruins ate well… slept well and just enjoyed hanging out.. We had an 80 inch TV in the house.. and it only got turned on twice.

. I felt like a middle aged couple on vacation with their grown up kids….

…and….. well…. I guess we are . and I'm grateful for that..

We're not flying back to BTV to rejoin the working world.. thanks to the duel miracle and cusrse of airborne wireless I've spent the last 4 hours transforming the vague dread of wondering what I've missed at work in the past week to the vague dread of knowing what I've missed.. not a bad bargain.. As I know.. the world turns fine without us..

I'm really looking forward to breathing at 300 feet above sea level.. this past week we've spent at about 9000 feet.. with a few ventures to 10,000… there just weren't enough air molecules to go around for my tastes.. Running actually felt like I was trying to get exercise instead of the mindless and pretty effortless thing I'm used to.. Water boiled in funny ways, cakes came out flat and my brain felt like I had an icepick in it for about half of our visit..

but it was a nice icepick and grew to love it like the rest of our vacation.

I'm looking forward to having air that you need to claw your way through… air you can taste !

i'm also really looking forward to seeing our Dogs.. I miss them so much when we travel.. People you can call.. but withdogs you need to smell one another…

 

OK.. gotta get back to my mound of email.. and we'll be landing soon.. I can feel the plane already dipping towards responsibility..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me