I am sitting here in a house in San Antonio while my host and Pao from Ecuador go shopping at the Central Market. It is raining. I have had so little time alone to get a blog post written so I am rushing through this before time gets away from me and people return to the house. To recap from my last post...
I was in San Diego for two nights sleeping on a sofa in a house not too far from SDSU. I was near El Cajon Blvd which is not a great spot at all. It was my last taste of San Diego so maybe that was good. While other areas could romance me back this area was full of pawn shops, tattoo places, closed stores, and check cashing services. Uck! The rains came and I hightailed it out of there and headed to Yuma for one night. Bye Bye California.
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| YES IT IS A SAM ADAMS IN YUMA - THEY GET AROUND LIKE ME |
I had a great host in Yuma, Dawn. I texted her when I got to town and she texted back to meet her at a golf course bar. Oh my. After a beer she got me settled at her house and then we went to a friend's birthday party at the foothills. I was fuzzy the next morning. I laughingly accused her of plying me with wine to keep me there. She so wanted me to stay the weekend for a festival on Saturday and for Sunday boating but I simply had to decline. I had made plans to be in Tucson with my former expat friends Linda and Joe. I don't have many photos from that stop which is a pity. Earlier in this trip Linda and Joe were living in Prescott and I shot some pics then but for some reason not this time. Perhaps because it was only a two night stay. They seem very happy in their new city. It was fun seeing one another again. We bored pup Supo the first night with all our talking. She went to bed early.
From Tucson, still trying to keep ahead of the rain I drove to Bisbee. Now I have plenty of photos for you. My host Darrell was a true kindred spirit and into so many of the things that I am. I found myself having a thought and then he would say out loud something about the topic. We had an awesome non-stop visit. I wanted to see the Art of Bisbee and we sure did. We went all over town and more. The second day we explored the natural areas around Bisbee. He is an active environmentalist and along with a small team have made a study aimed to save some wild areas threatened by development. I went to view those spots and wow, it would be such a shame if bulldozers came in and reshaped the washes. I am sending his team great energy and hope.
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Ok what happened next? A long drive. Yikes I have been putting in long drives lately. Arizona and Texas together seem so longggggg. I start to get fuzzy and spacey after five hours so I have to break driving up and find a place to sleep. I stopped and couch surfed one night in Las Cruces. I arrived late afternoon to Brian's then his roommate Cesar and I sat around the kitchen table looking at photos and sharing stories until midnight. The next morning I got up, routed myself through El Paso and stopped to photograph Casa de Azucar, Sugar House is a labor of love by artist Rufino Loya Rivas for his wife. It is not made of sugar. It is made of cement and modeled after confections and churches he saw as a youth in Mexico. He lives there and I got a chance to chat with him before getting back on the highway.
After my quick stop in El Paso I drove and drove and drove to Fort Stockton where I had reserved a tent campsite in a RV park. Have you ever tried to pitch a tent in a Texas field in high winds? I decided to use my 30 second pop-up dome tent. 30 seconds - haaaaa - try an hour. Yes 30 seconds is true. I have done it before but not in 20 mile per hour winds. Thank goodness I have perseverance and Yankee ingenuity and several bungee cords of various sizes. It was a windy crazy night. I didn't get that much sleep. I was warm enough and the ground stayed still but the dome tent had a whole lot of noisy shaking going on. Weeeeee!
Up early and "on the road again" this time to San Antonio where I sit now catching up. I am tired. These last few drive days have been very tiring and as of this writing I am without a place to sleep on Monday night when I leave San Antonio. I didn't have the time before these moments to read references and make couch requests. I have sent a couple out for Austin and am awaiting response but I must make Plan B and C. I must go now.
Hasta Pronto - Until soon.
Adelante >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Music Video Time - Canned Heat 1968 - "Going Up the Country" - Enjoy.
"I'm going up the country, babe, don't you wanna go?
I'm going up the country, babe, don't you wanna go?
I'm going to some place where I've never been before."
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