I started my job at the hospital about two weeks ago and am finally getting my feet under me. The woman who I took over for moved before I got here and was pretty much out of touch for the last month or so before she left because she had just had a baby who was very sick, so she spent a lot of time working from home and caring for him (in fact, she left to move closer to the facility where he will get the best treatment).

So I've just been meeting with all the staff, and the more people I meet, the more they let me know what they need form me, meetings I need to go to, etc., so I'm starting to get a better picture of what I need to do. A lot of it is committee meetings, daylong retreats, board meetings, staff meetings, etc. At least there's food at most of them.

I'm staying in a small cabin provided by the hospital until I find a permanent place to live. It's nothing special, but it has a kitchen, living area, bedroom, bathroom and cable, so it's a big help in the whole relocation process. Plus, it's right next to the hospital so I can walk to work. Ingrid and I looked at houses before I moved up here, and the market it nothing like Vail, but it's definitely not depressed like the rest of the country. I feel like all of the houses here are overpriced. Ingrid read one comment on a real estate Web site that said Jackson's going to the billionaires, so the millionaires are buying in Cody.

The first week or so I was here it rained every day -- constant, soaking rain (and even a little snow one morning) -- including all of Memorial Day weekend. So I didn't have a chance to get out and explore the area much. Everyone said it was unusual for it to be so wet, and it has been pretty nice since. Nice and cool, at least. I don't think there has been a day yet where temps have gone above the low 70s. Perfect if you ask me.

To me, Cody is the Golden of the Absaroka Range. Whereas Golden sits right at the base of the foothills of the Front Range, Cody (elevation 5,102 feet) sits right below the foothills of the Absaroka Range, which runs along the eastern edge of Yellowstone up into southern Montana. There's also the Shoshone River, which is reminiscent of Clear Creek in Golden.

There does seem to be more wildlife in and around town. Deer graze along the main drag and vacant lots in town and rabbits lazily hop between buildings. I also read in the newspaper that there have been a couple of grizzly bears sightings just outside of town this spring.

While Golden has about 17,000 people, the town of Cody has about 9,000 people and is in a much more rural place - no neighboring major metro area here. All of our local news either comes from Billings, Mont., or Casper, Wyo. Sheridan, Wyo., has about 16,000 people, but it is about 2.5 hours east and you have to cross over the Big Horn Mountain Range to get there.

Last weekend, this site called Old Trail Town had a free day. It's a bunch of old log buildings from the area that were moved and reassembled in western Cody. It includes the Hole in the Wall Gang's cabin, where Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid planned the robbery of a bank in Red Lodge, Mont.; blacksmith shops; the Rivers Saloon; Curly's cabin (an American Indian scout for Gen. George Custer); a general store; and several other buildings.

The site also has some famous Old West cowboys that have been reburied there, such as Jeremiah "Liver Eating" Johnston and W.A. Gallagher and Blind Bill, cowboys murdered in 1894.

There also are dozens of stuffed animals in all of the buildings, but my favorite part was a cabin where there were American Indian artifacts, from thousands of arrowheads, spear tips and stone axes and knives to a wooden dugout canoe from the era of Lewis and Clark.

And I still haven't been to the nightly gunslinger shootout reenactments downtown or the Cody Nite Rodeo, which takes place every night during the summer, so expect plenty more blogs and photos.