The Annual Trip to Arizona
I don't really know what to blog about. The past few weeks have been pretty uneventful; got tickets to see Wicked (in June), went to the California Academy of Sciences, all fine and good, but not really blog worthy.
We're on our annual pilgrimage to Arizona now, I'm in Flagstaff as I write this, with a bunch of snow on the ground, and more falling from the sky.
Having a father born in Flagstaff (and very proud of it), snow in Arizona has never seemed odd to me. I know it can bug Lauren when people are shocked to hear that all of Arizona is not a desert, and it hit me over the summer, when I was talking about my bed and breakfast idea in my MBA capstone class. My business plan was to open a bed and breakfast in Flagstaff. I mentioned to people that Flagstaff appealed to skiers, and a couple of people looked at me like I was crazy. I wasn't, and I have pictures to prove it:
...and me in front of them
From here, we head to Mesa, where we will visit my grandmother, as well as my parents, uncle, and aunt, who all make the pilgrimage to Mesa in December to pay homage to the Shirley matriarch, Shirley Shirley. Yes, her first name and last name are both Shirley.
After the Mesa visit, we're heading to Bisbee, to celebrate our 2nd anniversary. We are not sure what exactly there is to do is Bisbee, and its surroundings, but I'm sure we'll come up with something. We also plan to cross the border into Mexico while there, so I can keep my streak of years going, where I have spent some time (even if it's only a few hours) outside of the U.S.
We then go to Tucson, Lauren's old stomping grounds, then two days in L.A., then back to Mountain View.
Teaching starts soon after we get back, and I'm kind of nervous. Not about the teaching, but about my body. I'm worried about losing my voice during the first week, after such a long layoff from teaching, and my back holding up - it tends to hurt when I stand for a while, and I will be teaching for 4 1/2 hours straight, 4 days a week. I'm sure I'll be fine after a week or two, but I'm not looking forward to the first week of the quarter.
But now is not the time to worry about next month, so....
We're on our annual pilgrimage to Arizona now, I'm in Flagstaff as I write this, with a bunch of snow on the ground, and more falling from the sky.
Having a father born in Flagstaff (and very proud of it), snow in Arizona has never seemed odd to me. I know it can bug Lauren when people are shocked to hear that all of Arizona is not a desert, and it hit me over the summer, when I was talking about my bed and breakfast idea in my MBA capstone class. My business plan was to open a bed and breakfast in Flagstaff. I mentioned to people that Flagstaff appealed to skiers, and a couple of people looked at me like I was crazy. I wasn't, and I have pictures to prove it:
...and me in front of themFrom here, we head to Mesa, where we will visit my grandmother, as well as my parents, uncle, and aunt, who all make the pilgrimage to Mesa in December to pay homage to the Shirley matriarch, Shirley Shirley. Yes, her first name and last name are both Shirley.
After the Mesa visit, we're heading to Bisbee, to celebrate our 2nd anniversary. We are not sure what exactly there is to do is Bisbee, and its surroundings, but I'm sure we'll come up with something. We also plan to cross the border into Mexico while there, so I can keep my streak of years going, where I have spent some time (even if it's only a few hours) outside of the U.S.
We then go to Tucson, Lauren's old stomping grounds, then two days in L.A., then back to Mountain View.
Teaching starts soon after we get back, and I'm kind of nervous. Not about the teaching, but about my body. I'm worried about losing my voice during the first week, after such a long layoff from teaching, and my back holding up - it tends to hurt when I stand for a while, and I will be teaching for 4 1/2 hours straight, 4 days a week. I'm sure I'll be fine after a week or two, but I'm not looking forward to the first week of the quarter.
But now is not the time to worry about next month, so....
Happy Holidays!
posted by Jefferson at 3:27 PM
1 Comments:
How funny that I decided to go to your blog after months of not looking and I see that you went to Arizona. We were in Arizona from the 26th through the 31st and up until then, I had never heard much about Bisbee except for Nick's casual name dropping. Upon our return to the Bay Area, you are probably the third person who has mentioned to Bisbee to me. What did you end up doing there?
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