We took this trip from Colorado Springs to St. George, Utah, to visit Jade and his family. On the way out, we took the southern route across northern New Mexico and Arizona which took us over La Manga Pass (10,230') and across the Colorado River at Page, AZ. While in Utah, we visited Snow Canyon and Zion National Park. On the return trip, we went through the heart of the Rockies to avoid heavy snow to the south, crossing Vail Pass (10,666') and Longmont Pass (11,990').
Monday, March 8, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Down With the Flu!
Despite both of us getting our seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccinations, we picked up more than the usual cold after returning to Colorado...ironic since I was just saying how healthy we had been over the past several years. So, blogging has suffered along with yoga, walking, and most everything else...except watching DVDs. Katie has joined Netflix, so there is a fresh movie in the mailbox almost every day.
We are in the process of moving from the place where we've been house-sitting to our 5th-wheel trailer in a nearby RV park. Armed with a couple of RV repair manuals, I have been playing mechanic in order to get all the systems up and running. The only one that required some outside assitance was a balky furnace which, it turns out, had been colonized sometime in the past by mud-dauber wasps! But we now have heat, water, refrigeration, stove, microwave, and DirecTV, so the transition should be relatively painless.
I think our wandering lifestyle has begun to wear thin on Katie (and, to a lesser degree, on me). She seems to be craving a "place to call home" even if that's only a place to put all of her "stuff." For five years, her personal things have been scattered to the winds, but now there appears to be some hope of rounding it all up and schlepping it to Canada where it will join all of my "stuff." On a relative scale, neither of us have very much "stuff"...we have both sifted and winnowed and down-sized and off-loaded, but there are a few things that we each feel "define" us. So, perhaps, when they all find a common home, we will feel more settled.
We are in the process of moving from the place where we've been house-sitting to our 5th-wheel trailer in a nearby RV park. Armed with a couple of RV repair manuals, I have been playing mechanic in order to get all the systems up and running. The only one that required some outside assitance was a balky furnace which, it turns out, had been colonized sometime in the past by mud-dauber wasps! But we now have heat, water, refrigeration, stove, microwave, and DirecTV, so the transition should be relatively painless.
I think our wandering lifestyle has begun to wear thin on Katie (and, to a lesser degree, on me). She seems to be craving a "place to call home" even if that's only a place to put all of her "stuff." For five years, her personal things have been scattered to the winds, but now there appears to be some hope of rounding it all up and schlepping it to Canada where it will join all of my "stuff." On a relative scale, neither of us have very much "stuff"...we have both sifted and winnowed and down-sized and off-loaded, but there are a few things that we each feel "define" us. So, perhaps, when they all find a common home, we will feel more settled.
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