Wednesday, Oct 13
Update from Sedona, the red rock, vortex, mystic crystal center of central Arizona. The weather has been very nice the past week. Several of our walks this week have been across and along presently dry washes that obviously had large water flows last week when we got about 2 inches of rain in less than 2 days. It is back to ‘normal’ temperatures, in the mid 80s, which are tolerable if you have water, hats, sunscreen and hike early or late in the day.
I’m indoors listening to the whine of the leaf blowers as they do the constant grounds maintenance. I think it is to insure plenty of work. Today the leaves and dirt are blown off this property onto the surrounding ones and tomorrow it is blown back here. Also a lot of time is spent cleaning the red dust off of the red sidewalks. Sedona should outlaw white clothes and make all linen and towels red. The laundry soap usage would immediately drop by half.
On Sunday we will again be camping, this time in Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. We hope to be at 4400 feet so it will probably be ok temperature wise even though it is close to the Mojave Desert and Palm Springs. Night time lows should be mid 50s.
We are using our pictures from this trip as our screen saver for the laptop and enjoy seeing all the contrasts in the places we have visited since we left Anchorage on August 17th. The pictures change randomly every 4 seconds and we try to name the place where the picture was taken before it disappears. We accept the general location, such as Yellowstone, and don’t require which of the geyser fields or mud pools it is. After awhile you can actually distinguish the Alberta bison from the Yellowstone bison or the Rock Art Ranch bison. We still can’t distinguish the lizards by state. But we now have a skink picture from a Sedona walk! (Looks like a short snake on very short legs.)
This past Friday Travis and Bill stayed with us after their hike(s) in the Grand Canyon. They survived but their cell phone was a casualty. It was a very interesting time for them! (Our hail in Sedona and tornadoes in Flagstaff post was during their hike.) We had lots to talk about.
Yesterday I received an email from Anchorage asking several questions about my last contract project. It took awhile and several readings of the questions to remember what they were talking about. That happened only 10 weeks ago!? Seems a lot longer than that since I went into work…..
This time reminds me of when I first retired from ConocoPhillips and took 5 months to reorder/reevaluate/reprioritize how to set goals, use time, etc. Am I really retired? What does retired mean? Lots of questions and time to decide……
But for now it’s getting later in the day and time to think about going to the pool (the leaf blowers are moving to a distant part of the property). I need to make use of the timeshare pluses as we finish up our leisurely four weeks in the 4 corners area. I have arranged our pictures taken so far, stitched together all the panorama shots, deleted the many duplicates, and we are now at 6000 pictures or 10 gigabytes for the trip.
So by for now and onto but not into the pool! (I'm allergic to chlorine.)
Dean
PS The question of the day: Is the Chevy Volt an electric car or not???? And Google is getting into wind energy investment!
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