Well today has been a really long day on the road. We left Amarillo on route 40 and have just driven west. I have to admit I was kinda happy to get out of Texas
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From Aunt Gail (again)
anonymous
July 31 2006, 20:19:37 UTC
Hi lady, I think I'm going to have to take issue with your mother's comment on me having "difficulty learning to blog". I am having no difficulty learning to blog - there are just bugs in this code somewhere. No program should just vanish with data if a user hasn't expressly told it to discard it. So there. It's not me.
I'm so glad you got to see the Petrified Forest and Painted Dessert. That's the set of parks that Rob and I saw very, very early in the morning - not by design exactly, but because we, too, got confused by Arizona's ridiculous insistence in not following the rest of the country into the world of daylight savings. We helped open up the visitor center and had the first cups of coffee they served that morning - but the views we had of the Painted Desert with the sun still barely up were magnificent. We tried walking some of the trails in the petrified forest (the park ranger we met was smarter, she was on a horse), but it was October and pretty cold already. Not to mention windy.
I'm sorry that you had to scurry through Albuquerque - the old town area is really fun and has one of our all time favorite Mexican restaurants (ask Uncle Rob about their sopapitas (sp?)). One time we stopped there and made the mistake of having two Margaritas apiece - totally forgetting that Albuquerque is one of the "mile high" cities. Two drinks were way too much for us at that altitude and we ended up delaying our trip for hours. Had a good time anyway and we weren't in any hurry.
Those Arizona thunderstorms are something else, aren't they. When I was in Green Valley one August, I got to watch them form in the mountains every afternoon (they call it the monsoon season). Sometimes they stayed up there with the lightning going from peak to peak sideways and sometimes they got bigger and bigger and rolled down to the valleys.
Hope you are going to get to see the Grand Canyon - although I can never even look at a picture of it without remembering Papa's comment about possibly using it for a landfill.... Some of us in the family are a little less green than others.
Re: From Aunt Gail (again)atstackAugust 3 2006, 05:56:35 UTC
Sadly, we didn't hit the Grand Canyon, but it's just one more excuse to back to Arizona.
The time zone thing is really screwed up, but Indiana was like that until this spring as well. I guess it makes some kind of stupid sense to me. I think it has to do with cows.
I'm so glad you got to see the Petrified Forest and Painted Dessert. That's the set of parks that Rob and I saw very, very early in the morning - not by design exactly, but because we, too, got confused by Arizona's ridiculous insistence in not following the rest of the country into the world of daylight savings. We helped open up the visitor center and had the first cups of coffee they served that morning - but the views we had of the Painted Desert with the sun still barely up were magnificent. We tried walking some of the trails in the petrified forest (the park ranger we met was smarter, she was on a horse), but it was October and pretty cold already. Not to mention windy.
I'm sorry that you had to scurry through Albuquerque - the old town area is really fun and has one of our all time favorite Mexican restaurants (ask Uncle Rob about their sopapitas (sp?)). One time we stopped there and made the mistake of having two Margaritas apiece - totally forgetting that Albuquerque is one of the "mile high" cities. Two drinks were way too much for us at that altitude and we ended up delaying our trip for hours. Had a good time anyway and we weren't in any hurry.
Those Arizona thunderstorms are something else, aren't they. When I was in Green Valley one August, I got to watch them form in the mountains every afternoon (they call it the monsoon season). Sometimes they stayed up there with the lightning going from peak to peak sideways and sometimes they got bigger and bigger and rolled down to the valleys.
Hope you are going to get to see the Grand Canyon - although I can never even look at a picture of it without remembering Papa's comment about possibly using it for a landfill.... Some of us in the family are a little less green than others.
XOXOX
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The time zone thing is really screwed up, but Indiana was like that until this spring as well. I guess it makes some kind of stupid sense to me. I think it has to do with cows.
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