Brrrr!!! It’s FREEZING :D
Ok, so this update is a little late but I wanted to get my pictures up to go with it and I've been bogged down with SL5B (more on that in another post).
We left Pheonix about 10pm Sunday for Olympia, the car was packed to the gills and we still had to leave quite a lot of stuff behind. The route was very simple, west to the I5 and then North.
The intention to get through the worst of the desert during the night. It was boiling anyway, I am so glad we didn't do that during the day when it's over 120F. We split the driving into shifts, one drove while the other slept, my job was to make sure they were always awake at the wheel!
California is a boring place. Its flat and mostly made of yellow.
We ran over a plastic cup or something on the freeway and it fley up into the engine bay and ripped through some wires. After one stop to replace blown fuses (that promptly blew again) we pulled up besides a Texaco gas station for a rest. I couldn't sleep in the car so got out and put a blanket on the ground and it was a good job I did! Spotted wires hanging from under the car!
Had to pop the hood and tape the broken wires off. Fixed the short so the fuses didnt blow again, thankfully it was just the front side indicator and screen wash pump that was affected. Just as we were finishing a state trouper swung by (seems those inside had called the cops), he was happy enough that we were finished and about to leave :)
We arrived in Olmypia in the early morning. 30 hours driving total with only a few hours stopped when we had to. Went to Walmart, Sarah's parents house, sleep.. sleeeeep .... sleeeeeeeep.
Hatched and then gone :(
It looks like someone came and emptied the nest. No trace of chick, eggs, feathers, nothing.
:(
100 Degrees and Climbing…
It's hot here. Way way to hot. I'm told that in the summer it gets over 126F (52C).
It did rain here a couple of days ago for about 15mins, the rain smells funny and afterwards everything is coated with a fine dust. It didn't last long though, the sun was out and not long later you wouldn't even know it had rained at all.
I have to wonder why people decided to settle here in the frst place, exactly what the first folks to come to this desert were thinking? I can only imagine mass sunstroke and a fist full of stupid pills are the most likely cause, or perhaps it was a bet.
Time to bunker down indoors and wait for the sun to go down......
Trip to Flagstaff
We took a trip up to Flagstaff yesterday to test the car as much as anything else. It's amazing how the climate alters within only a couple of hours from Phoenix! Flagstaff was freezing cold with puddles of water from recent rainfall, lots of green and trees and a rather nice mall.
We thought about going to the lowell observatory while we were there, but apparently its closed after dark. Likewise, the Grand Canyon is out once the sun has gone down, ah well, we will be back up in about a week or so for those things anyway :)
In other news we went to the court this morning to sort out miya's legal change of name, all sorted, just have to wait till the 30th to go back and get it finished. It's a bit of a nightmare compared to doing it in the UK.