Leaving Mesa Verde for the Gorges

From the balcony of our room.

A nice day. Cold morning air, sunshine.

We skip breakfast: a message at the desk asks us to call home.

We battle with the US phone system: no-one knows how to call outside the US (you dial 011 first), it's not possible to do this from anywhere else than a payphone but those take only quarters.  Robert gets a whole roll from the desk at the shop.

But finally we try Susan's old calling card from 1997, which still works and has enough credit left to make contact. It was Sophie wondering whether everything is all right with us.  Good, no disaster...  The "children" are now looking after the parents ;-)