Day 33 - New Mexico to Arizona

Okay, FYI: in real time Sean and I did make it home! Were happy, healthy, and safe. I jumped right into a weekend workshop for school and Sean is job hunting/looking for apartments.

Sorry for not updating since New Mexico. The fun did NOT stop a day 32. I will make it a point to finish this through this weekend.

Okie dokie. So after the sun set at White Sands we found a campground here is a visual of te landscape that surrounded us when we woke that morning:







We were going to go sled ridig down the dunes in white sands that morning, but the heat and long drive to come distracted us. We had to make it to Arizona for the Titan II Missile museum before they closed...

Quick stop for Lunch along the way at a very authentic Mexican restaurant, with spicy salsa! 5 stars & under $20 for the both of us.






Like a flash, we hit Arizona and fell into a billion speed traps (radar on & detecting away!)






Sean saw a billion attractive freeway signs begging us to stop & see "The Thing"





Ooh, mysterious!

We actually spent our last 2 dollars here:





And what was the thing you ask?! Exit 262 off of route 10 my friend - go check out the thing! Your life will be enriched!

Not really - there are many "Things" in this museum, and noTHING seemed to make any sense.





There is this "thing"





Here is another "thing"





What the heck are these "things"?!

Good thing it only cost 2 bucks otherwise I would have protested my $$$ back!

Here's some classic Arizona landscape:





Tuscon



Thanks to Charles Dowd and his creation of time zones, we made it to the Titan Missile Tour at 4:02 instead of 5:02 (closing time).

I don't think I'd want this thing to land in my back yard.





Here's Sean on the topic of the missile he says, "pew pew":

This was a super cool tour, and the guide appointed me as the captain, which means I got to detonate this bad boy! Oooh, I love pushing buttons.

Dinner in Phoenix and we decided on sushi. I think after all the crap food we've been eating, we didn't care how not native to Phoenix sushi was. It was healthy and light.

Another hour to Arcosanti! This is an architectural lab created by Paolo Soleri that is all about integrating less sprawl on the land and ecology in everyday life. In short, this means that we visited a commune of hippies who hate automobiles (hmm, we won't mention the 11,000 miles of oil/gas we've burned so far. Paolo Soleri - who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, has an Interesting concept, and in many ways I feel would work on a much larger scale, but right now is unsuccessful.

More on this later tho. Tonight we simply checked into our hippie room, got our first shower in like 5 days and was greeted by this dude:



-- Posted from April's phone