She did request that. And I have been lazy at this blogging business, so I'm getting back into it. I hope the description pleases my mother. I'll start at the place I'm staying. I know I've described it a bit, but here I'll go into laborious detail, just for the fun of it. The main complex of cloudbridge has three buildings. The electricity comes from solar panels, the stove works on gas, and the water comes right out of a mountain stream. if we are cold at night, we can light a fire in a wood buring stove, over which we can also cook beans. (Dried beans, by the way, are very difficult to cook, and require pre-soaking for a few hours and then cooking for at least an hour. Then, they still aren't very good.
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