Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day.

Sunday, December 28,2008

We stayed up pretty late last night and enjoy the opportunity to sleep in this morning. Our body clock tells us it is 8 am while the Arizona clock indicates 9 am. Which one should we follow? We decide to go by the body clock and snuggle up a bit longer.
I enjoy my daily grapefruit half and a cup of Rooibos tea before I walk over to the laundry room to throw in a load of towels and some bedding.

Last night I discovered that the gym at the hotel does not require a key and I decide to go on the treadmill. Wow that feels good.

We take our time having breakfast together and I take my first enjoyable shower in the RV.
I puts around, organizing a few more things and put away my winter boots and warm coat.
Ramiro checks a few things here and there. We’re finally starting to feel at home in our rig.

I look up some possible Geocache sites on the web and after lunch we pack some snacks and water and drive to the first cache location.
It’s gorgeous outside. We don’t need a jacket at all. This is the kind of weather we had hoped for all along.
The first cache is in a park with a very strange tree all made out of metal. It's called the reading tree. No matter how hard we search we are not able to find it.
The next caches are located along the river. We park the car and walk the long trail, picking up a few caches along the way. Going back is quite a challenge, the path is flooded en we have to cross the railroad track and a busy road to find our way back on the other side, but we manage and take a break at the midway point.

Once we return to the car, Ramiro wants to drive around a bit to discover new things, but all we see is stores. We stop at Fry’s Electronics and check out the digital cameras. Remember I mentioned that I dropped my camera the first day on the road? It was useable, but I could not use the LCD screen and was not able to change any of the settings. I got lucky. They had the perfect camera on sale. 10X zoom and all kinds of other features. It’s a Lumix by Panasonic. Nothing fancy but I still have my large Fuji at home. This is so much more practical to carry around. It's my belated birthday present. Thanks Ramiro, I like it a lot. I should now be able to make better pictures.
Once we get back tot he RV I get my first opportunity to practice on a beautiful sunset right from the RV. I just click and point. We’ll see how it turns out.

We enjoy a glass of wine together and check our e-mail, each on our own computer.
I spend the rest of the evening updating my blog and learning the features of my new camera while in the background some easy listening music is playing. We are really starting to feel relaxed. If this is retirement, I think I like it.

What about that cheesecake we still have in the fridge? We earned it, we burned so many calories today. Let's indulge. Tomorrow we can always walk some more.