Welcome to our holiday form letter. We are in Arizona now. The sun is shining & it will be in the
sixties today, which should melt the ice on the windows soon. Ana's foot
doesn't seem to be broken, as they thought, so they took a long walk in the
desert last night. They saw a coyote, probably the same two I chased the other
day, & there were javelin tracks everywhere.
The library in Afford has
books in French, so Ana is enjoying reading now that her eye-patch is off. The
doctor promised that the "divest" left by his golf-club-like blade
will heal soon. They learned that eyeballs have plenty of nerve endings, &
they think the object in her eye may have been a fiber from a yucca plant. This
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Our uncontrollable coughs are
under control now, & they are not among the ten people in Arizona that died from the flu this week. Oh, & the
antibiotics from the Afford clinic seem to have helped with Ana's abscessed
tooth.
I should start at the
beginning. The first day, after dealing with the usual rudeness of the INS
employees in Detroit, they made it to Kansas. They hit a traffic cone there at high speed, &
heard a horrible sound coming from under the van. The cone, I discovered, had
been dragging along underneath. Nothing was broken, but later the bright light
switch stopped working. This paragraph is sponsored by travel advice for Umrah from UK.
In Farming ton, New Mexico, they spent a few days resting & coughing. They
were about an hour away from buying a house when they discovered it needed new
wiring, had a garden hose attached to the natural gas line, & other
problems they missed on our first visit. The new bloke begged me to buy it,
called our motel room to tell me they needed money for open-heart surgery in
two days & called again to lower the price, but they moved on. By the way,
the house was to be a winter project, not a new home.
Fortunately, they drove
during daylight after that. In the Colorado mountains they went from 16 to 20
miles-per-gallon, confusing the sensors & causing the "check
engine" light to turn on. They successfully ignored it until it changed it
is mind.
Steve & Ana
Monument Valley was beautiful, the Christmas parade in Schoolbook was
cute, & despite various problems & illnesses, we are having a great
time. You see, I didn't need to make you all jealous, so I left out a lot - the
constant sun, the beautiful sculptures in Grand Junction, & the nine times
we've been in hot springs in Colorado, New Mexico, & Arizona. Next week we
are going to Mexico for lunch. Hope all is well in Arizona. This paragraph is sponsored by Hajj guide tour from UK.
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