Daily life
Here are some random notes as we settle in here in Arizona:
Yesterday we went to a street fair in Tucson. (http://www.fourthavenue.org/content/home ) Lots of crafts, fairly generic, but with a Western/Southwestern flavor, of course. We bought a few things. It was quite nice--we ate lunch outdoors at a nice café in an old hotel downtown, the Congress Hotel. (http://www.hotelcongress.com/) It's near the University of Arizona. The street where the fair was is right next to the U, so lots of funky students, older folks, faculty types and university-area stores that are permanently there.
It's cloudy here today and a 10% possibility of rain tonight!!! It keeps it much warmer at night when there are clouds. We actually had a few drops--literally-of rain this afternoon; not enough to do more than put isolated drops on the sidewalk.
On Saturday our neighbor, Dwight, took us on a 24 mile bike ride, 12 miles uphill, perhaps a total of 1000 feet--felt like more--in elevation. I was huffing and puffing--out of practice, at altitude (about 4000 feet at the end). Coming down was easy, however.
Today at the Post Office there were no parking spaces; cars were backed up onto the main street as people were mailing what I took to be Christmas gifts. With so many grandparents in residence, the density of people visiting the PO during the day is pretty high.
Other sightings: quail just outside our back fence; javelinas walking past 20 feet from us. And a road runner on our way back from Tucson on a road through the San Xavier reservation.
Yesterday we went to a street fair in Tucson. (http://www.fourthavenue.org/content/home ) Lots of crafts, fairly generic, but with a Western/Southwestern flavor, of course. We bought a few things. It was quite nice--we ate lunch outdoors at a nice café in an old hotel downtown, the Congress Hotel. (http://www.hotelcongress.com/) It's near the University of Arizona. The street where the fair was is right next to the U, so lots of funky students, older folks, faculty types and university-area stores that are permanently there.
It's cloudy here today and a 10% possibility of rain tonight!!! It keeps it much warmer at night when there are clouds. We actually had a few drops--literally-of rain this afternoon; not enough to do more than put isolated drops on the sidewalk.
On Saturday our neighbor, Dwight, took us on a 24 mile bike ride, 12 miles uphill, perhaps a total of 1000 feet--felt like more--in elevation. I was huffing and puffing--out of practice, at altitude (about 4000 feet at the end). Coming down was easy, however.
Today at the Post Office there were no parking spaces; cars were backed up onto the main street as people were mailing what I took to be Christmas gifts. With so many grandparents in residence, the density of people visiting the PO during the day is pretty high.
Other sightings: quail just outside our back fence; javelinas walking past 20 feet from us. And a road runner on our way back from Tucson on a road through the San Xavier reservation.
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