Age 9
About midway through the Colorado trip, we spent time in two mountain towns.
In Ouray we stayed in a hotel with a big pool, a free breakfast, and hot tubs right in the building — Dylan approved.
In Telluride, a mountain town with a park in the middle of it and a river running nearby, we rode the free gondola up to the top of the mountain — Dylan loved it — and walked around town, stopping to talk to people and their dogs. Near the park there was a tiny creek, and Dylan found some sticks and leaves and floated them in it. Dylan was nine years old and it was a mountain creek. Down at the river, dogs were chasing balls their owners had thrown in and swimming back to shore. Dylan watched them do this for a while.