This was taken the day Nash and I visited the Getty in LA.
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coolidge
This morning, David and I got up early and met Joe and Cindy for a scooter ride to Coolidge. Well, David drove his car with Cindy in the passenger seat. Not everyone enjoys the ride. It was a busy trip down through the Queen Creek area–a lot of construction. It’s so weird to think people live in giant homes so far east of everything. I couldn’t believe there was so much out there. How do people commute so far each day?
We ate breakfast at a little dive called Tad’s. Mostly farmers, local business people, and cowboys inside. Coolidge is a town I could imagine Napolean Dynamite growing up in.
The drive back was nice too. We went through Sacaton then through Chandler. I did think we were going to eat some pavement with the crazy crosswinds we fought down and back, but we made it safely.
Whew.
prescott
Last week, David and I drove to Prescott.
Ahhh…out of town…it was so nice to get out of the heat, and even better that David went too. We had a wonderful time. We stopped at the Rock Springs Cafe both on the way up and back. In Prescott we stayed in a little B&B called the Gurley Street Lodge. The owner’s wife was an artist, and I was able to spend quite a bit of time talking to her about art. That was encouraging. We walked around town, shopped, drank beer, watched the clog dancers, and hung out in The Raven.
This is the cabin in which we stayed. Full kitchen, two bedroom, nice and clean. The weather was amazing; on our drive up, it was pouring rain.
You know you want some world famous whisky pecan pie. You do.
David wanted a red cream soda, but we didn’t have any cash. The minimum for debit was ten dollars, so I bought some local orange blossom honey. Mmmmm…
The Raven serves local and organic food whenever possible. I had a salad and soup as well as an iced americano here. They have lots of art on the walls and support the music scene as well. David and I hung out here for a few hours. I read a book about photography, and he read one about a journalist traveling to China.
And how many coffee shops in your neighborhood have the awesomeness that is this?
roadtrip to tucson
Earlier this summer, Aimee, Stephanie, Ryan and I traveled down to Tucson to get out of town. The heat was inescapable as Tucson has relatively the same temperature as Phoenix, but it does have an interesting artsy, indie, hippie culture which is an oasis in itself. In the downtown fourth avenue area, we ate at a vegetarian restaurant with a morroccan theme for lunch, purused the books at a liberal bookstore, and drank coffee at a stand with a back patio. I watched the three others pick up mesquite pods from the dirty sidewalk in front of where we parked; they intended to make flour from the pods, but Stephanie said they went bad after a couple of forgotten weeks in the car. We also picked up native Arizonan seeds from the Native Seed Search store. We finished the day trip with a visit to a local coffee roaster where Aimee managed to talk the owner into buying all of our drinks, and we ate dinner at the Korean restaurant next door. And we played “Hinky-Pinky” for about a full dirty hour on the return drive.
tomorrow they return!
Kishu can’t wait for everyone to come back home. He’s had just way too much fun partying nonstop for a week, and he’s quite worn out from it all.
such a joyous dance
knitting class
I was lucky enough to be invited on a vacation with my mother-in-law and her friends. (Okay, I invited myself along.) I never would have been able to make it had I been working at my old job. It feels great to have that freedom for the first time in years.
I taught all three of my fellow vactioners how to knit. I must tell you, they were very competitive. They kept holding their knitting up to one another’s knitting just to see who was the fastest knitter. Lynn kept ripping out her entire piece everytime she made a mistake.
I had a wonderful time. It was so beautiful near the beach.
drew
Our friend Drew has a birthday this week! Happy Birthday, Drew!
He moved to Korea last year after having taught himself the language as a high schooler. I am very proud of him. Now he is working as a fashion model in Asia.
testing the ride
some of my favorites…
