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Rotary Barbecue in the "shack" Holly & Doug

3-R Ranch

Nursery School @ Pueblo University (CSU)

9:00: We arrive at CSU (Colorado State University) Pueblo joined by Jeff, a professor of environmental sciences. We visited first the "solar fields" that is, their fields of solar panels covering 1.5 hectares and generate 1.1 megawatts per hour. The CSU is one of the 4 largest private producer of solar energy in the USA. For information, the largest producer generates 2 megawatts / hour. Awesome! It is also equipped with wind turbines.

Another extraordinary fact: The students wanted a "Student recreation center" whose total cost amounted to over 9 million. They have voted to fund the center for 5 years and pay about $ 200 per student per year for this purpose. Today the center's construction is complete but indicated that some have completed their studies before they can enjoy. A new wing is planned and will be funded from the same way. The leisure and sporting facilities are extraordinary and greatly value the university which trains over 5000 students per year for a city of about 100,000 inhabitants!

All specialties are available, mathematics, psychology through nursing school ... We visited in particular the wing dedicated to training engineers. The students have all the hi-tech equipment imaginable and also old machines for their tests and projects. Our guide emphasized the fact that here we want the students get their hands dirty instead of being frozen in theory.

We then move to a nursing school where we find a room with 3 bedridden size models on which students train. These models are breathing, drooling, bleeding, watery ... Their retina reacts to light and you can feel their pulse. They frighten us with a little realism. Each costs $ 65 000! From the control room computer, teachers can simulate all the symptoms that students must then analyze to make a nursing diagnosis. The degree is awarded after 2 years against three years of study in France. Students may extend for two years for additional teachers or health managers and a further 2 years to be able to prescribe medications.

It is lunchtime and we will join Holly in a kind of typical saloon where we taste the famous "sloppers", a sort of open hamburgers in two parts and bathed in a spicy sauce hyper, all with chips say French and a huge glass of beer that should raise both hands so it is heavy! ... Yes, diet is not the program!

After this frugal breakfast, we leave to visit a ranch about 30 miles from Pueblo. We drive in huge displacements higher than the greatest of us. The brands of cars are the same as in France: Ford, Toyota, Nissan etc ... but models for the U.S. market are very different. They are well-conditioned course, fortunately, since temperatures in Pueblo and surrounding area is between 30 and 40 ° C with an extremely dry air.

We drive across landscapes such as those you see in westerns with John Wayne: low vegetation and rare, cracked earth, blazing sun and no chance to find shade, hills behind which lurk certainly Indians ready to attack !

Ranch Betsy is huge. It stretches over 4500 hectares or about 9000 football pitches. Our eyes are not able to see the boundaries that lie beyond the horizon line. Betsy is a "cowgirl" of 70 years. We're seeing a big step agreed with his jeans and his belt, his boots, his shirt and hat. It takes us in his 4x4 in the middle of pastures and hundreds of cows there. In the ranch totaled 900 cows and calves for meat and 25 horses. Betsy, her husband and two employees are running the business for 30 years.

is the end of the afternoon we visit the magnificent chalet Holly and Doug Hanson, a place they call "the shack". We all fall under the spell of this "home sweet home" hidden in lush forest furnished with leather sofas placed on its floor covered with wooden slats cowhides. Holly decorated the house of his dreams (and ours) with a good taste in the smallest details. Doug gets the barbecue while we are testing the "horse shoe": He is throwing a horseshoe and get as close as possible to a stake, even for the most gifted of the wrap around. Marie, Julien and Nicolas are having a field day and surprise their guests with dexterity ... or luck? All our host families are invited and we chat with gusto an excellent glass of Cabernet Sauvignon in hand enjoying a few pieces of cheese served as an appetizer. Doug
wonder what I would cook for my piece of beef fillet (size of a hallucinating) and informs me that in the U.S., they are 5 cooking modes between "blue" and "well done".
tasting meat that leaves us open-mouthed. We exchange glances between French aback: none of us has ever eaten such meat such tenderness, such a flavor! We do know that Doug shows affected by the compliment and we used a second as huge as the first and that we enjoyed to the last atom! The American Pie performed by Holly Berry and served for dessert finished our stomachs ready to explode!

Thanks Holly and Doug for this wonderful evening!

Christine