Stratton, United States

Readers, we're not in Kansas anymore. And that's probably not a bad thing. I blog to you from Stratton, Colorado. I'll apologize up front to the loyal readers, you have a guest blogger for today. (Sorry, it's not Abby. Though she does say, ...

... too, cause I needed to stretch my legs, but ken refused.....good dog. We finally arrived at the Golden Prairie Inn in Stratton Colorado.  Stratton is so small they share a town drunk with the next town, and the mayor has to double as the village ...

slopes looked like packed powder.  map showed long trails and gondolas, though

... , he was an overland hauler, a trucker. He tells me a little about that lifestyle, how he got to see the whole United States while getting paid, how he was at one time an independent contractor, but got forced out of business by big corporate truck ...