"It should not be denied...that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led west." Wallace Stegner, The American West as Living Space (quoted in Into the Wild (about a book by Jon Krakauer about a guy lost in the Alaskan wilderness) which I started today.) Today, I went west. Amy Davis, a fellow resident from Maine-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency, is a doc here and took me for a tour. We went up to Colorado National Monument--the mountains just 20minutes from my door. When we were setting up the date, since she hasn't seen me in 20 years, she eyed me and asked, "Do you run?" I said, "Not lately. Do you quilt?" SO, she did a trail run while I did a trail walk. I hiked up Serpent's Trail from Devil's Kitchen in my new $4.99 Goodwill Nikes.... 
I kept right up with the 4 year old who passed me (and took my picture.) After the walk we drove the Rim Road--every bend in the road looks across a mini-Grand Canyon. Tomorrow I'm invited to dinner where she has free range chickens and an organic farm on 7 acres on the Colorado River.
Wonderful? So glad you are getting to see stuff!
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