End of the Prescott interlude.....

 7:51 am - Saturday - January 17th - TWW - 30° F, humidity 24%, cloud cover 0%, wind 5 mph out of the northeast.....clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 59° F. The view this morning.....

.....and on this date in 2015 I was giving away my daughter, Sharon, in marriage.....

Our five kids...left to right: Meredith, Kate, Sharon, Chris and Tim

.....to Rod Garcia, a good man whom I am proud to call 'son'.  It is difficult to believe it has now been 11 years.

We loved our room at Hotel St. Michael (Best Western), and the bed was so comfortable I forgot I wasn't in my own bed in the Newell, which is the most comfortable bed ever in history.  We slept with the window open both nights, and in spite of it being in the low 30's outdoors each night, was quite comfortable, even with the window open.

We were awake around 7 am, at which time I walked down to the Lobby Bar to get our morning coffees (no coffee service in the room).  The round trip takes about 5 minutes, so its not a big deal, and the coffee is better than the average hotel coffee.  After posting my most recent missive we began to pack our clothes for the trip home, which didn't take long.  By the time I had brought the car around from the parking structure, and we loaded our luggage it was 9 am....perfect!  We headed directly over to Parlor Doughnuts for two Americanos, and some doughnuts (French Toast for moi and TLE).  We sat at the bar near the entrance to enjoy our coffees, and were back in the VW headed for Fry's Grocery Store by 9:30 am, our last stop before beginning the two hour drive home.

Our goal was to be on the road home from Fry's between 10 and 10:30 am, and we made it by 10 am.  The drive home was beautiful, without incident, and we arrived there just after 12 pm, even with a stop to top off our fuel tank in Ash Fork.  The condition of the main north/south arterial dirt road was still excellent, even though it has been almost 2 weeks since it was scraped, and we covered the 7 miles to TWW in less than 15 minutes....a new record for the VW.  Even though Prescott is not what I would call a large metropolis, it is a busy town, with lots of background noise, so as we slowly made our way along the arterial we both remarked how nice it was to be back in the land of 'QUIET'.

By the time we had unloaded the car, put everything away, and I had unlocked everything (shed, trailer, garage, house, Phyllis' Newell, CONEX) it was going on 2 pm, and time to sit down for a break.  While we were gone all the the batteries being charged by our solar panels were fully charged and ready for use.  Nothing froze, and the plants in the greenhouse did great.

Time to get back to work.....thanks for stopping by!