October 19: In Apache Junction

Carl and Liz at Home

Lovely day in Apache Junction Arizona got up nice and early with the dogs Thor  and Jade. Set down

Sipping Coffee

to some delicious cereal bananas and some coffee. Good way to spend a Sunday morning! Carl is checking out his  news feeds. He is also reading the Washington Times.  I am on

Superstision Mountian

on the other hand reading some fluff on Facebook.We left the house and Went to the Supersticiion Mountain

Carl and Liz going to Museum

Museum. I got some sounvoneers for folks back home. We saw a wild west reanactment which used

Carl and I 

used live ammo. Damn that was loud. And rice gunfire that freaking loud. And then we met some of the

Wild West Reenactor

people that Liz works with at the superstition museum. And then we came back to Carl's place

Actress and I

and were watching the Arizona Cardinals versus the Oakland raiders. That instead of Giants Cowboys. That was just as well 

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cause the giants are lost to the Cowboys 31-21. Now are going to hear how great the cowboys are the next week or so

Lizas nephew is here

Barrel Catus

with His two roommates. But talk about guns and stuff. Lis is cooking up some chicken for

Carl and Liz Nephew

dinner and cooking slow cooking all day in her slow cooker. Liz nephew and his two roommates came

Dinner

over and the brought  a bunch of beer for themselves and stuff. We all hung out in the back porch and watched

Carl and Liz in Backyard

 this a storm swifter the mountains and passed by us here in Apache Junction.  We got a nice breeze

which iwas really cool and Decourley from the fairly  intense heat that is common  here.

Giants Fumble the Game to Cowboys

We enjoyed some delicious barbecue chicken sandwiches. They were moist and slathered in barbecue sauce.  I had 2 of

Thor and Jade

them because it were yummy and I was hungry. While eating we had a conversation about

After Dinner Rainbow

topics such as the wayward son who is actually homeless and delusional to discovery of man mustard.

The Sun Set at Apache Junction

It was pretty funny. Who is the old story of one time Carl used a ladder to get in since left his  keys at home. Liz had her gun on the ready for

Looking Past Car & Liz Backyard

shooting ANY intruder. Fortunately for Carl recognized his features and tragedy was averted. If you guess getting ready to leave the sunset

Can't Get Enough of the Beauty

was beginning and turning out some beautiful blues and oranges. I was just mesmerized and started taking tons of pictures. My sister called

WOW!!

around the same time and monthly come to her Halloween party next Saturday early as possible. She was in much better spirits on this phone

One Stop Shopping

call and the other one becomes plainly relieved.😄 The next went outside the front door and walk towards Main Street in Apache Junction.

Purple and Orange Beauty

There I got to see more of the sunset down the road. I was just mesmerized by the bright neon orange with jettisoned long the mountain in the dark blues from the clouds from the storm

Road Gully/Trench

that lied over the mountains. I decided I'd go cheap and go to the pizza place and buy a soda and water. I know I shouldn't be drinking soda and both Liz and Carl  very much against soda.

Memorial for the Departed

I had decided to take a short walk  and talk to Amy. It was nice to have a connection back home in Philadelphia. My troubles foot seems to be feeling a little bit better today but I still have to

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be very careful. I'm sure Alice will have some idea of what I can do about it. I'm pretty it before and about the whole visiting family thing I

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just don't know what to expect. I would like to see my nieces that apart from other people I would just be nice to get to know me a little bit it's people. They probably will not be judgemental and others have a meet me me away from the rest of the family

 Anyhow I went to my room and just lied down and passed out. Then I did some work on this blog and decided I would go to bed. When I got

up I saw a cute actin th bathroom. This was the same cat was following me around the house walking outside

Saturday, October 18: El Paso to Apache Junction

At El Paso Texas

Good morning boys and girls it is now 2:43 AM Saturday, October 18 we are boarding the Los

El Paso Greyhound Station

Angeles brown bus for me to go to Mesa Arizona and to be picked up by Carl and go to Apache Junction Arizona. It's 245 and therefore the running

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already 10 minutes late. I'm gonna take a nap. Well I was napping but for some reason the overnight entering Mexico we had to put a patrol

A Scary Road

could be the bus and look at everybody's ID I will have a screenshot of the map we're driving

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down west on interstate 10 now. I am really tired and hopefully I will get back to sleep. I have asked the

Border Patrol on the Bus

border patrol why we needed reinspect and he said New Mexico New Mexico but no matter I had my ID. Alright it's 6:04 AM we just

Rest Stop

left little puny town in New Mexico have to look up its name. And the only thing there was a McDonald's

so I had to hashbrowns and OJ that were quite good.

I woke up at 6:15 630 in the morning

Stunning Sunrise

a.m. to unbelievable site of mountains in big sky's it's beautiful man. It's sitting there staring at them

The Mountains

the whole morning.I seen stuff like this in pictures but until actually physically it in the space I've never

been to such a place. It is now 7:27 AM mountain time and we are getting close to Tucson Arizona.

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We only get a 30 minute break there. I now see why it was worth it to lose my sleep and not be that

My Location at 7 am

comfortable overnight. Because waking up to some like that of out of nowhere is breathtaking to put it

Almost Done!

mildly. And I see why people move out here it's just so fast. It's like early sobriety but in another level. The

Phoenix

mine has to catch up what  my eyes have seen. Well I'm at the little bit more and we just left Casa Grande.

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The significance of that is I am 45 minutes from ending this bus trip. The Danish taste good

Nice Passenger at Casa Grande

and the coffee is tasting mighty yummy. Who cares why didn't get much sleep or I need a shower.

At Casa Grande

I'm going to make this trip and I'm gonna enjoy it, Will Carl pick me up at the makeshift Greyhound

Carl's Backyard

station and took me to his place. It was very well appointed very small but done very nicely. I didn't took

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a glorious shower and had some homemade chili to get me back into the real life. Carl then took

Carl Treated Me to Chilli

me to superstition Mountain which is the huge mountain right on the outskirts of Apache  Junction.

Carl's Studio

He took me on this Arizona route 88 which is kind of like the one on California's 101 which

Carl Driving Me from Bus Stop

is right on the coast of the Pacific ocean. There were some cool scenic vistas that were quite unbelievable.

Superstition Mountian

I like a fool, forgot to bring my phone charger so I had a dead battery at the most inopportune time.

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Fortunately at the the touristy thrift shop called blank I was able to get a charger and a car charger attachment

YIKES!!

. With an iPhone you can never have enough chargers. I'm so glad I have this phone don't have

Mining Cars

enough room just keep taking pictures till I drop. I Took so many pictures we have a hard time deciding which

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ones to keep and which ones to toss out and which ones to put on Facebook. The only bad news

This is Cool

the whole day is that I aggravated my foot issue by twisting it a little bit so now I have to walk with a

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little bit of a gimp and I'm not to do any hiking on Mount miss roads because my foot keeps turning.

 The Mountains

At least I'm not like completely gimped out for my trip. It's warm it was 94° but it was the most comfortable 

Elvis Returns

94° I've ever experienced.. It's that old cliché it's not the heat it's the humidity!