Lunch with Jack Loeffler at Cloud Cliff. The streets are snow-covered and the Prius handles beautifully. Driving 20mph actually feels like a good speed for these steel coaches… I say make that the maximum speed cars can drive inside villages, towns and cities and watch the traffic-death-rate drop from almost 40,000 deaths per year… And at that speed electric cars would get a lot more milage…

A few hours later my head is still buzzing from the many things Jack and I covered in a little over an hour. He has done wonderful radio programs on things that interest me very much, like the Colorado River, the Rio Grande Watershed etc., and we discussed adding these programs – usually 2 – 6 hours in duration – to our ListeningLounge in the form of mp3s that people can purchase and download. When we met at my house in November, Jack brought me a copy of his program on the Camino Real, and I found that it was a wonderful way to soak up a lot of history. Jack combines location sounds with interviews and local music and I would often listen on an iPod while taking a walk.