So.

After VCCA, I drove to Houston for Christmas.

That was nice. My nephew, he's cute. I flew to Los Angeles to hang with my best friend from college, Aili. We look for trouble. Art, camping, hot springs, hikes, etc.

Then I drove from Hou to Dallas to visit Tania, a high-school friend and drink scotch at the bar across the street and be reluctantly converted to the ways of turkey-"bacon". Yes, it was good.

Two Advil gel caps later, I'm on the road to Colorado. Spent the night in a hotel in the NE corner of New Mexico. Awoke to blue skies, cardigan weather, and a ghetto McMuffin provided by the hotel "breakfast nook".

Onward. To Fort Collins.