The Green Revolution

Just as an aside, I wanted to comment on one of the weirdest challenges we've faced living in a hotel: recycling. Our Homewood Suites is a nice place, but it doesn't have any kind of system for recycling. Now remember, Torger is only allowed to have bottled water--nothing from the tap--and so with that, and the enormous amount of plastics we go through because of his medications and infusions, we've basically become our own little Superfund site. We've been dutifully separating out our recyclables every day, and I think we've finally trained the household staff not to just throw out our recyclables when they clean the room. Once we've got a full grocery sack or boxful, we stick it in the bedroom closet or the trunk of our car. My sister Marcy and her husband, Mark, have been wonderful about taking a load of recycling with them every time they drop off another batch of bottled water (which they pick up for us at Costco). But it continues to mount. I'm actually just posting this as a warning that anyone who stops by the hotel to visit from now on might just get a bag of mixed recyclables to take home as a souvenir.