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MWT – Home Sweet Home at Grand Canyon

01 RV Challenger NR GRCA NP AZ

I never thought I’d get here, but here I am for the fourth summer in a row. Better late than never.

The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park opened Sunday, May 15th right on schedule. Boy were we busy!

02 View S from BAP trail NR GRCA NP AZ

I worked some at the Visitor Center, roved along the Bright Angel Point trail chatting with visitors, and studied my programs to jog the lazy gray matter. Wonderful to access information thought forgotten.

03 Flowering Mahogany bush along BAP trail NR GRCA NP AZ

Flowering Mahogany

It just doesn’t get any better than this.

And finally Qwest got me hooked up to the DSL I just knew was here. Yippee, I’m back on line! Will catch up with every body soon.

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SWF – Miles under a changing sky

01 Truck & 5th-wheel Yarnell AZ pano (1024x498)

Wednesday morning I finally rolled away from my winter home towing my new 5th-wheel under a brilliant blue Arizona sky. I’m headed back to work at Grand Canyon National Park, a paid vacation.

02 Cloudy sky with sun over Mt Humphreys I40E towards Flagstaff AZ (1024x656)

Mt Humphreys

Hours later, heading east on I40 towards Flagstaff a brief yet heavy spattering of large rain drops barely wet the highway while snow fell on the North Rim of Grand Canyon where I’m heading Thursday.

03 Sunset through the pines KOA Flagstaff AZ (1024x768)

Suppose to be clear skies for the next leg of my journey.

04 Sunset through the pines KOA Flagstaff AZ (1024x768)

The clouds drifted away with the westering sun.

To view more skies from around the world, or to share your own, go to Sky Watch Friday by clicking here. Thanks meme team.

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Upon getting to the canyon there’s a good possibility I won’t have internet in my RV. Unfortunately my smart phone doesn’t work well under the towering Ponderosa pine forest. (It’s a trade off.) Yet I can find places where it will work and get online. Please don’t think I’m ignoring you as I will try to keep up as I can. I will also continue to badger Qwest for my usual DSL.

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Ready to roll, again

01 Mt Hayden View south from Point Imperial GRCA AZ (640x397)

I had almost given up on getting back to work, which will seem like a vacation.

02 New 5er slides out Yarnell AZ (1024x768)

Thank goodness there’s no snow now but it did hail today, and snow on the North Rim

Got home Friday afternoon. How good it felt to sleep in my big bed in my big new 5th-wheel. Which I had kind of forgotten about as I didn’t live it in very long before being gone two months to Texas, and back twice.

Saturday I unpacked some of my stuff from the U-Haul mostly into the storage shed which is packed from floor to ceiling.

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Sunday afternoon, Mike’s brother Max helped me unload the cabover-camper for the last time. I sold it. It’s been good to me and I love it when it’s on the truck but it’s an absolute pain in the ass to get on and off. I have a tent.

Next we delivered furniture, boxes of stuff and clothes to Mom. She seemed rather happy to see her big recliner and plopped right down into it.

I took Monday off. Wow, did that feel good. Went to Prescott with Berta to thrift stores (I really needed that fix) and a few groceries because it’s time to stock up.

Today I packed the 5th-wheel, inside and out and tomorrow I roll as far as Flagstaff 3-4 hours away. Then Thursday to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Yippee!!! I’ll be HOME! And I get to see my sweetie.

Unfortunately, Qwest strikes again and tells me there’s no DSL left on the North Rim. WTF!!!! I’ll be working on that.

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