Well, this may be my last interaction with technology for the next 8 days. Surely not. Surely I will be lucky enough to have internet at the Sandhiller Motel in Wray. Wray is where my mother is from, and is a teensy weensy farming town in the Northeastern corner of Colorado. No mountains here, just miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of wheat and corn fields. Which is lovely - I really do love going to Wray, and haven’t been in several years. Wray was named the “best home town in the U.S.,” 10 or so years ago, and these days their claim to fame is, well, a little nasty - they have tours to watch the prarie chickens “do their thing” during their mating season in the spring. You have to get up and out at 3 am to see this event though, so no one I know has witnessed it yet. We are going to Wray for Mom’s family reunion on the family farm - we have had many a good time there, no doubt - I really am very excited!

So, we are staying at the Sandhiller - this is the finest motel in town, and one of about two, possibly a third. The Butte, which is the only one I have ever stayed in, has cinderblock walls and really is more like a prison cell than a hotel room. But I love it. I just spotted a review of the Sandhiller at Yahoo:

My best advise to you is to buy a camper with a kitchen and save yourself the aggrevation by NOT doing business here. The rooms are nasty with dirty carpeting and old mold smell. When renting weekly, maid service is NOT included in the fee. On the restaurant side, the only safe meal to order is a steak. Anything else is poorly prepared & totally inedible. Too bad as there are too few places to eat in this little burg.

Hee hee - obviously he doesn’t *get* the charm of Wray. Pity. My cousins and I all adore this town. I am looking forward to staying at the fine Sandhiller myself! I am moving up in the world, getting to stay there instead of the Butte! There isn’t one photo of the Sandhiller on the entire internet, so I will be sure to make that my goal for the week. Although they claim to have internet available, I have had so many hard times getting online at MUCH more posh hotels, that I am not holding out much hope here. I hope and pray that I will not be technology-less for 8 days, but its a distinct possibility. So please don’t think I have fallen off the edge of the earth, I have just slipped into another dimension - one without computers, cell phones, Twitter, b5media or even too much beauty. I hope I can bring some of all of that to town tomorrow. If you REALLY need to reach me and my cell isn’t working and I have no internet (pleaseno), the number to the hotel is 970-332-4134 - give me a ring!

Oh, so I don’t forget - b5media hits the New York Times again tomorrow - but you can check it out now, right here. Go b5! Have a great week everyone, if I don’t see you (*eek*)!!!