July 20 - Cortez to Montrose, CO

After a week of rushing from park to park it was so nice to be actually visiting people today! We drove north, into the Rockies, to visit Max and Susan (friends from Grinnell). Both are teachers in the Montrose area, so it’s lucky that we are visiting in the summertime or we might never have seen them. We had a lovely afternoon and evening chatting and wonderful meal.

While sitting at the kitchen table at night, chatting away, we heard a noise by the windows. Opening up a blind, we came face to face with a tabby kitten hanging onto the screen mesh! We think she was chasing bugs which had been attracted to the indoor lights. All the humans were entertained for quite a while, watching the kitten chasing bugs in the grass. Eolus, Susan and Max’s cat, was less impressed, however. He's a two-human, one-pet cat! Luckily he's also very cute and affectionate with his family.