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Plaza Hotel, Las Vegas
This downtown hotel is much nicer than I was expecting for $25. We haul our bags through about 1/4 mile of casino to check in, then back again. It’s a bit windy and looks like rain, otherwise we’d probably head out to the rooftop pool & spa. I also notice that the building houses the…
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I-70 in Utah
When we did this drive a few weeks ago in the moving truck it was too awkward to stop at the view areas, but I vowed to do so when we returned. It proves well worth the trouble – the huge San Rafael swell provides miles of beautiful skyward-thrusting Navajo sandstone. We appreciate having Anne…
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Glenwood Springs
We stop at the Glenwood Springs Lodge to try out their giant spring-warmed pool. It’s really nice, but pretty steep at $11 for admission. I was looking forward to trying out the water slides too, but they were closed. Instead Ann leads us in some water arobics. Feels great after driving all day.
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On the road to Vegas (baybee!)
We hit the road for Vegas, via our storage locker in Denver, with my old friend Anne Marie Powell in the back seat. On the way to Ft. Collins we pass this brush fire, started by a resident burning grass, that consumed a home before being controlled by firefighters.
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Movie: The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
What a loud, bawdy, frollicking Shakespearean romp! Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are great. Because everything is so exaggerated you hardly notice the Elizabethan English. I guess a Shakespeare afficionado might consider this a “dumbing down” of the bard’s work, but I loved it. For once I could at least tell when I had missed…
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Hair Adventure
I get the sense that a husband should use caution when publishing pictures and comments about his wife’s hair on the internet, but this is too much fun to resist. Jess wants to dye Ann’s hair with free artistic license. Ann figures that her hair can look like anything for the Sociometry Fair and the…
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Lighter
We roll into Denver and head straight for our reserved 10×15 storage unit. We learn that it’s an upstairs unit, and that we have to squeeze through a small door and elevator to get there. The downstairs units are more expensive – but of course they don’t tell you that when you’re making your reservation.…
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Starry Night
At dusk we start looking for someplace along I-15 to spend the night. On the map I see a road leaving Leeds, Utah and dead-ending in Dixie National Forest. It takes some driving around and scouting in the Subaru, but we find a legal spot to camp a ways up a small dirt road. We…
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Entropy precedes motion
Some things go in boxes, and some stay out. Some services end today, and some tomorrow. Some things are put in piles, then migrate to other piles. Each pile makes sense on its own, when you make it, but all together they look more like an abstract painting and give little indication that on Sunday…
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Work Luncheon Going Away Gifts
At 11:30 today I go to the Sante Fe Grill for my goodbye luncheon. Ironically Ann is in Sante Fe working, and I wish she were here because I’m no good at these things. She helped me through a similar luncheon just after we met in 1996 in Los Alamos, when I left my job…