Some trip pictures



desert flowers can be very pretty--these are the size of a quarter




a great micro-brewery in the middle of the mountains housed in a 100 year old structure




desert flowers/berries




a sheep with big horns but NOT a big horn sheep!!

 Here we are into the last few days of October.  Come Thursday and November is here.  It may be time to rethink all those things I promised to get done in 2012 and see if many or any of them are finished!!
It will be a different kind of week for Terry and I as we will be gone for a few days. 
The temp is a bit cooler this morning than the past week.  As I meandered out to get the Monday paper it was 66 which is below the 70's last week.  I think we may have been experiencing effects of Sandy the last few days as it has been very very windy.  Today not so much. 
I finally got into the pool Friday night.  Did not spend a lot of time there but I enjoy going after dark as one can swim, see the stars outlined by the palm trees around the pool. 
This morning it will be a bike ride to the library to get a couple of books Terry has reserved and maybe one or two more.  I sat down Friday night about 6:00 PM with a book called Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille.  Twenty-four hours later, 516 pages later and of course some sleep I finished it.  Can't remember the last time I was that taken up with a book.  May have been when I was in the 7th grade when we were encouraged to read and report on 25 books and I think I read and reported on 110 or so.  Of course many of them were "Black Stallion" books and maybe I read some twice I do not know.  Anyway Wild Fire caught my attention and it was difficult to put it down.
I have yet to tackle the camper exterior cleaning.  May have to leave that until next week. 
I did get all the receipts taken care of from our camping trip.  I thought we did well as we traveled 6262 (actually 6263 but 6262 looks better)  miles in 29 days and for gifts, gas, food, camping fees and everything spent less than $100 a day.  We now have a rough kind of gauge that tells us on an extended camping trip we can look at around $100 a day and 200 miles.  That is rough of course but it gives one a ball park figure.  The gas was less than I figured but then with family and friends we spent more on eating out so it kind of offset things.
My FP is now down to the bottom of the cup kind of where it gets muddy so will sign off.