Our home away from home is within walking distance of just about any kind of store we could possibly want, and many we wouldn’t. So far we’ve been to a grocery store, two drug stores and Target, a liquor store, a pet store, a hat store, and two climbing gyms—one twice. All within a 20 minute walk. So convenient.

Milo’s getting accustomed to walking beside traffic (there’s a lot) and is very good at sitting when we come to an intersection and have to wait to cross. Most everyone wears a mask, and everyone has one at the ready if not currently on their face. There are signs at the cross walks that ask you to please press the Walk button with your elbow or sleeve, so as to lessen the contagion factor of many people pressing the buttons.

And this afternoon Milo and I walked through Naropa’s campus and along Boulder Creek and beside UC Boulder. We’ll have to venture on to that larger campus another day. Did I mention it’s 80 degrees here every afternoon this week? Hot and dry, people, hot and dry.