Lynn Ruth: where are you?

We're in Colorado this week: visiting old friends in Denver and seeing the majesty of the great American West: Utah and now Colorado. Snobs in Europe bash America for having no "culture, museums, history" but when you see these mountains, the red rocks, the picture perfect skies you don't need all that Old World stuffiness, for the American West is one big great open air Museum and if you can't appreciate that kind of beauty, you're blind.

And...about mixing business with pleasure. Jon had to make a conference call from the hotelroom. Right in the middle of the call Caroline picks up the phone in the bathroom (toilet flushing) and yells to her brother: "Hey William, check this out, they even have a phone in the bathroom here." The other people on the call are probably still wondering whose little girl that was, because Jon broke off the connection, utterly embarrassed.