A trip to Aspen

Earlier this week I travelled to Aspen in Colorado to attend a conference. It turned out to be quite a good one - my first experience of a very small focussed meeting (150 people talking about Neurofibromatosis, compared to 10,000 people at the Cell Biology Meeting I usually attend).



Aspen is a beautiful place, high in the rocky mountains (almost 8000 feet above sea level). But it turns out that the end of May is not the time to go. Skiing is long over, many shops were closed, and the gondola up the mountain opens next weekend. That said, the hotel was so swanky, there was really no need to go anywhere else.