Walking and writing... that's what most of my days are through the winters... walk a couple hours... write a couple thousand words. Gotta catch up after fallin' way behind on Novel number 4... and Ben is into it deep in this one! ;)
Been keeping the Raider kinda quiet... Not sure I'm too awful happy 'bout that, but it's quite a ways to get from here to any truly good motorcycle roads ;) ... mostly though I'm trying to conserve fuel money for the Christmas run to Denver any hoo...
We'll be pullin' tomorrow for a site just north of Phoenix, probably our already found camp near Dugas... The idea is to be a bit closer to the airport... and to where I'm gonna hide the rig when I leave...
Heidi flies up on the 12th... and me... under the usual pressure to abandon my distaste for and obstinate refusal to fly any more... ;) ... will be rollin' the old truck up around the 18th/20th or so...
Till then it's the warm desert for this kid...
I know a lot of people only come down here once...
A few others 'll give it a try for maybe another winter... but then go somewhere else as well, to escape the snow and cold of the frozen north...
There's fewer of us I suppose that are somehow attracted to what them others see as bleak and barren...
I suppose that's why I see so many Alaska plates in the lots around Quartzsite. It takes a different mentality to lock onto the treasure we see in such stark and powerful landscapes...
Strip away all the softness and security of soft rain, paved streets... help just a phone call away... it touches that part of me that was born a century late.
The quiet and the conscious feeling of Space... like crossing the Yukon... the sheer, stunning space to stretch out and truly be in solitude... is awesome.
Some apparently tried to stay a lil' longer in the past...
Don't know... the posts of just an old ramada to seek shelter from the sun?
A rough old tin "cabin" for some desert rat prospector?...
Curious... but he had a nice view of a morning...
There's little hurry in the desert. You take your time and see what grows of value to fill your days...
I've got work to do... but I've got air to breathe so... the work has to wait its turn. In this camp, tucked out on the fringe of where most of the rest camp... I've got the space to do that...
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| *A long camp on the Arizona's winter desert* |
Last evening we rolled over a few miles to where Judy and Cisco set their new camp. Met up to ride Judy's rig into Quartzsite for the fabulous ? Christmas Parade. ;)
Seems she gets some nice sunsets from her perspective of the desert as well...
We sat along side the road drinking hot chocolate seasoned with a good shot (a couple good shots in my case... I wasn't drivin'! :) of Kahlua!) waiting on the parade to make it's run to our location...
They do it after dark here... I expect so there might be enough coolness so folks can tease their brains into believing it's comin' on to Christmas! ;)
My night time photography is... ummm... let's say... lacking ... so I just compiled the few usable bits into this quick lil' video to give ya'll a sliver of a taste of a small lil' desert towns Christmas parade...
Got some chores to button up before we haul tomorrow... laundry, catch some fuel somewhere, a bit of grocery stockin'... much the same as 'regular people' ;) so as always ... back to it.
Steeling My Will for a short return to the frozen north
Brian
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