Period charm ... and wireless internet

I am posting this from my room at The Lodge, Cloudcroft, NM, which is a charming Victorian resort hotel at an elevation of about 9000 feet. My initial investigations of the room revealed a lot of period charm -- and a handcrafted bear pleading for adoption on the pillow -- but gave me no reason to expect connectivity other than of the dialup variety. I cranked up the laptop anyway, and was pleasantly surprised to discover a wireless connection that works rather better than the one in Copenhagen. For a while there, though, I was trying very hard not to feel like a city girl in a movie, completely lost without my cell phone signal etcetera. (And there is, indeed, no cell phone signal, but most of the other modern hotel room niceties are in fact here, just discreetly tucked into corners.)

It's nice and cool here, but I'm feeling the altitude a bit, not to mention the effects of sitting in a car for most of the day and eating two substantial meals.