Cortez to Durango July 27, 2026

 

Tai in his backyard overlooking the little canyon.

I drove car behind the truck full of stuff…between Cortez and Durango.

Filled out forms, and brought first furniture in from U-Haul

My super son, he did most of the lifting, carrying and stacking…what a guy!

He did have 2 friends chip in to help. I gave them some lunch money.

Feeling very grateful. I found the two boxes out of twenty which had the espresso machine and the coffee.  

My hand is on the handle of the little cart which I’ve had for 20 years, and it’s taken pottery and now breathing equipment from place to place. We’re in our new home!

Elevated me! and travel pics #1

 Remember (if you've read my blog in the last month or so) my attempt to go to higher elevations to start acclimating myself to my move to Colorado?

Well, I've moved. And for the last 3 days I've been breathing air over a mile in elevation...and  using lots of oxygen to help. It's not quite doing the job. I am tired, and very sluggish, and get out of breath doing the least little thing.

Cortez, where I'm currently sitting at my son's home, is elevation of 6,181 feet. The fact that it's 93 degrees out keeps me in the house. 

Tomorrow morning we drive the rest of my stuff to Durango, which is at 6512 feet. I feel really bad that I can't help load and unload just the needs for each night. But this old body I'm living in is demanding breathing equipment.

Eventually we'll get the U-Haul unloaded (today when you read this) and take the truck back. And my son and his friend will drive back to Cortez and leave me in my new apartment with the hoard of boxes! And don't forget tupperware tubs!

But at the last minutes there was room for the little twin bed, which needs replacing, but provides me a place to put my pillow. And the old rocker wasn't quite ready for the trash heap. After all, there's a personal connection between us survivors from the 70s!

So you came for the travel pics, didn't you?

Saturday we left Santa Rosa, after a delightful breakfast. Then across New Mexico through Albuquerque.

 My first sighting of a train!

I loved seeing rocks that looked just like lava.

Jaba the Hutt for Star  Wars fans.

We got to Cortez CO

No idea who the cute baby was…

Checking into La Quinta in Santa Rosa, NM las night…while the fever raged. So I’m glad I took a photo before sleeping it off with a glorious night sweat (and tylenol and ibuprofen).

This day (Saturday) was long, but we got to my son’s home and have done most of the things ones does when you get home…

My son played with Zora, his Blue Tick Healer.

 And his wife prepared a simple delicious meal we all enjoyed, after I had a short rest horizontally.

Now I need to return to that position, so will show you more of the trip with fantastic views soon.

Accountability for AI

Thanks Keith Kron newsletter What really Matters on Accountability and Consernt. An excellent essay.

“… I think it’s time to hold the multi-billionaires accountable while leading by our own examples. Because we can’t just hold them accountable. It has to be us. And we have to agree to some standards around not doing harm, about supporting people who will lose jobs to AI, and about how we use it and for what. And it will take more than the AI leaders to do this.

It will take people who know, live, and teach what accountability is to teach them about it. Because they don’t get it. Or want to get it. They just want more for themselves. That’s not accountability. That’s greed.”

I came down with a fever last evening, and got it down with meds, but kind of skipped doing anything productive.

Here’s one more shot from today’s camera roll (figuratively speaking.) I changed the header already.

Our motel Thursday night was located on Rogers Ave, in Fort Smith. My son and I are both surname of Rogers. We are certainly not doing any sight-seeing on this trip. It’s just drive drive drive.

The bad news was losing my credit card by leaving it in the gas pump somewhere in Oklahoma.  I did call the bank and cancelled it. Fortunately I can transfer funds to another bank…which is my next job.