Nevok’s Keep

I’ll make it short and painless: today’s color is cactus green. What else do you expect when we spend a day in the desert, looking at dozens of different kind of pricklies living there in the wild. But cactus green does not equal cactus green. Like with all living things, there are myriades of shades to it. I’ll offset that with the unpaved sandy roads of the Tucson Mountain District of the Saguaro National Park, which were quite "interesting" to navigate with a non-offroader - despite what the travel guides said.

Ooooook. 

I’ve never seen that many…cactuses…cacti…whatever you wanna call them, folks, as today.

And it’s been hot. Sheesh. But, yeah, seriously, I have to admit that I can, more or less, stand this heat we have here. Stop snickering, people from Arizona who might read this, I know we ain’t seen nothing yet, we had upper 80s (30 degrees for you Europeans) and you can go 115s (don’t ask, my fellow old-worlders….). Still, upper 80s here feel less harsh than in Europe. Yeah, dry heat, yadda, yadda, but having your face melt is having your face melt, you don’t care if the heat is dry or humid.

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Alright, this is just a kind of interlude blogging, but seriously…

Yes, we have our window facing the I10. I can live with that, although the freight train is a bit of a trial. On the other hand, when I was living in Harrisonburg, I had a freight train every morning at 4 AM, blowing its horn for minutes because of the crossings it had to slow down at. So…eh, I am not too shaken by that one.

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