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3 comments March 7th, 2006
Hello, happily, but not fully contented I sit here in my hotel room. I’ve dinner to attend to a mere 100yds away by foot, and am pleasently suprised to find a Cat-5 cable ready for my laptop. 100mbps is very-nice, and seem’s I’m the only one using it as my pages are loading whip-smart fast. Fully contented would be having my sweet wife along, or not being away at all. With our first child due in 3 weeks or so, I’m trying to get all my travel out of the way prior. On the road like crazy lately, Portales last Friday/Saturday, this weeks trip, then next week to the opposite corner of my territory.
This week’s trip started yesterday in Albq. around noon on this trip to the NW portion of my territory. Yesterday met with one account @4pm, then got checked in and walked up to Steamworks for dinner. Durango is a neat little town, and my meal last night was phenom! Cajun Penne Pasta with a Pint of Backside Stout. Nice nitrogen smooth to cool off the way-cajun spicy fud. Wish I had my camera with me to show you how delicious it looked. This morning was French toast at Carver’s Brewing. Yes, another brewery, but they serve a fine breakfast sans alcohol, and after walking up and down the downtown area of Durango my last trip here, I knew it was the place to get great b-fast grinds prior to a full day of adventure. After that, met with a few accounts today, made some breakthrough negotiations, and drove my Vanna over Wolf Creek Pass. Stopped to take some pictures, so eventually you can see how beautiful it was. If you don’t ever get up here, or have yet to, you really should. It’s so wonderfully beautiful. You could either cruise up 550 to Durango, then across hwy 160 East up and over the pass, then drop down into South Fork, Monte Vista, then Alamosa. Of course if you’d rather hit it from I-25, Just follow hwy 160 West from Walsenburg, CO.
Praise God I’m safe at my hotel, and now that I’m stationary I’m feeling really tired. It’s hit: the drive, the appointments, the beauty of this more-favored sub-territory of mine. I’m currently listening to an Agatha Christie Mystery, as I drive after listening to Peretti’s Visitation. Eventually I’ll listen to the rest of the Chronicles, (I’ve the Dawn Treader next, after enjoying Prince Caspian), but for now am content with the fine offerings I have on loan from my local library. Books on CD are a real blessing on long drives, as you can allow your imagination to take flight while concentrating on the really important part, driving. Man I’m tired! Here’s the dinnerspot, I’m off to it so I can get me some “shut-eye” a tad earlier than last night. Yaaah! and tomorrow Homeward!