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Day 2023012!

Thursday, January 12, 2023

So what do I find the day after the Belted Kingfisher chowing down?  A Red Tailed Hawk.  Actually two of them, but the other one flew off as I was setting up.

~Curtis in /\rizon/\! {!-{>

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Day 2023011!

Thursday, January 12, 2023

I stopped down at the local watering hole, which is directly below the RV park we are staying in, and was shooting some Mergansers, when I spied a smaller bird on a limb…

He was thumping that not-so-little fish pretty good.  You can hear it if you turn the volume up!

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~Curtis in /\rizon/\! {!-{>

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Day 2023010!

Thursday, January 12, 2023

A Day Without Cactus is Like a Day Without Punctures!

(A two photo panorama!)

~Curtis in /\rizon/\! {!-{>

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Day 20230109!

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Apparently I chose well for an Anniversary present…

~Curtis in /\rizona! {!-{>

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Day 2023008!

Sunday, January 8, 2023

A wonderful sunrise this morning!  This is a three photo panorama from my iPhone 13:

And this is a panorama using the settings in my iPhone.a taken a few second earlier.  I might have been able to lower the exposure behind the trees a bit, but this was over in less than a minute!

~Curtis in /\rizona! {!-{>

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Day 2023007!

Sunday, January 8, 2023

A nice sunset through a dirty window…time to find the Windex!

~Curtis in /\rizona! {!-{>

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Day 2023006!

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Our first home cooked dinner in the Trailer since we came down…almost…it was something frozen the Dailylife Wife brought down with us…Fiesta Chicken from our Instantpot!  Still delicious!

Vertical iPhone Panorama…I will work on Zone of Acceptable Sharpness (Depth of Field!)…

I filled the truck up at $3.13/gallon.  We got 9.6MPG, but there was about 10-15 miles of trailer-free travel in the 114 miles.

~Curtis in /\rizona! {!-{>

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Day 2023005 – Addendum!

Friday, January 6, 2023

I got my mitts on three of the Dailylife Wife’s photos from the 5th:

Sunrise in Kingman!

The Dailylife Wife rarin’ to go!

Cedddar, Brocolli and Sweet Potato soup at the Red Rooster Cafe!

I got one of the wrap halves for dinner: really good!

~Curtis in /\rizona! {!-{>

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Day 202305 – A short Day! And Post! At least compared to yesterday’s three…

Thursday, January 5, 2023

We got off about 9am heading East towards Flagstaff on I-40.  This is one of the roughest roads I have ever driven on that was considered to be paved!

But the road stayed bare of snow and ice…just truck after truck after truck…

I had to speed up a bit to keep from being a traffic hazard…I only got 7.2MPG from Kingman to Williams!  Still pretty good hauling that trailer through the mountains.  Here are the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff: old volcanoes!

From Flagstaff we headed down to Clarkdale on I-17.  It was >>almost<< as rough as I-40!  They have 18 miles of it marked as steep with a runaway ramp and warnings to save your brakes.

In this two photo panorama you can see the red rocks of Sedona on the right, and the mountains with Jerome straight ahead.  Clarkdale us immediately below Jerome, near the center of the photo….

We got in to our RV Park a little after 1pm.  After backing into our spot, unhitching, setting up the electric, water and sewer hoses, we were ready for lunch.  We tried a new spot for us: the Red Rooster Cafe in Old Town Cottonwood.

Here is a large egg mounted on the wall…the food was really good!

Once we returned to our spot, we kind of got lonely because our neighbors had not yet shown up.  They hope to make it by February.

The Dailylife Wife put a few things away and called it quits.  We were both exhausted!  She called her sister; I called the Dailylife GrandDad.

More tomorrow as we fix and sort!

~Curtis in Arizona! {!-{>

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Day 2023004…Part 3…Feed Me!

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

(Photos by the Dailylife Wife and me!)

Last year late in our stay the Dailylife Wife heard about Oatman and wanted to go see it.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/03/the-wild-burros-of-oatman-arizona.html

It was too late and too far for a quick trip last year, but I recalled it was somewhere around Kingman, or at least a lot closer than to Clarkdale!  So we decided to make for a shorter day and got a Holiday Inn reservation and dropped off the trailer in Kingman.  Then it was off to see the burros!

It is ten miles of long straight road…then 12 miles of curvy mountain highway!

This was the original route of the Mother Road: Route 66.  Some of the old kitschy places still exist along the way, but this was the only open one.

You never know what will attack your tires up in these mountains!

Indeed the signs remind you this was Route 66!

And the Dailylife Wife assures me this is a cactus near a mission or something, and not a septic system under an outhouse…

What is that I see in the roadway?

Now they tell us.

Rough country, indeed!  That is our road up here.

Oatman!  Three photo panorama.

In town…

You don’t see this sign so much anymore…

On the way backdown the mountain…

“Excuse me…”

“I’d like to talk to you about your automobile warrantee…”

One last look back at the Black Mountains and Oatman, Arizona!

~Curtis in Utah, Nevada and /\rizona! {!-{>

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