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More time with the Hupps
We wanted more time with family and friends in Tucson. One more round of thinning out stuff we don't need, picking up a few things we do, and getting Bertha ready to head east. It's been great to have time with the family and long talks. Oh and Julie learned how to shoot a rifle and a hand gun including a bit of self defense lessons too. Colin said it' a bit like his EMT. Good skills to have but you hope you never have to use them.
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So I decided to hang a right rather...
... to firstly, have all my stuff fit properly and secondly, to not have to lift and carry the backpack. So when I woke up at the crack of dawn, I quickly googled their store hours (seems all shops only open at 9am but then they only close at 11pm) and pondered some more before deciding at 8:30 that I had to have it and was going to quickly go and buy it and come back and repack and check out. I managed to find my way along the walkway from the Luxor to the ...
End of the Road
I will end the blog in Tucson. The trailer is unpacked and we're settling in to Donna and Bob's house for the winter. We're definitely going to enjoy the weather here and getting outside without putting on long underwear, coats, and hats. I won't miss driving on ice and snow. Our plan right now is to stay until the end of March. The jury is still out as to whether or not we want to move out of Alaska. Maybe we will just be Snowbirds. Total miles driven since we left Anchorage: ...
Live Bison and Dead Horses
... the journey of the Colorado from mountains to the Grand Canyon.A bit of trivia for you - so much of the Colorado river is diverted for irrigation etc that only in years of very heavy rainfall does it actually empty into the sea as it would have done for millions of years in the Gulf between Baja California and the Mexican mainland. In the afternoon we had a look at the Glen Canyon Dam and chatted to a family from Antwerp. He told us our trip would be a dream for most people but ...
We've become CAVE PEOPLE!
... used as a guano source, and a tunnel, 25 meters (82 ft) long, was built in 1905, and a total of seven train cars of guano were filled. The deposit was soon exhausted, and the tunnel was abandoned.
Since then is has been the object of interest and attention of people ranging from train robbers(it was reputed to have been ...