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Hello friends! I’m safely home! It was a whirlwind and SO much fun and wonder. Usually by the end of our vacations I’m tired and looking forward to my own bed; this time it was really sad to come home. 😦 It was nice to get back to the little dogs last night, but really sad to leave the desert. I could have stayed longer! And this, after one of our longer trips, too. Ah well.

In case you were wondering, we stuck awfully closely to the plan as outlined in my daily posts you saw. I’ll be filling in the holes at some point, and sharing some pictures, but today is not that day. Today I’m struggling to catch back up in the library, with the laundry, in Database Searching, etc.

I DID do some reading! Yay! I finished Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear. I read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Husband and I listened to the audiobook of Worth Dying For by Lee Child on the drive. Then The Ballad of Typhoid Mary by J.F. Federspiel, and then The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, and then In the Woods by Tana French, which I stayed up just about all night to read cover to cover, and scared myself silly, which is crazy, but it was vacation! then I started Whatever You Say I Am (the life and times of Eminem) by Anthony Bozza, and also By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, both of which are still ongoing. And then Husband and I listened to Michael Connelly’s Echo Park on the drive home. Whew! How many is that? 8 books on a 9 day vacation? Not to mention 2 hikes and 4 mountain bike rides, a few hula hoops and perhaps more than a few beers. Ahhh.

Being in the desert out there is dreamy. There’s a different quality to the light; the air is so fresh and dry and sparkly (and gets a bit thin, too, for us sea-levelers) and the landscape is lunar and majestic and… it’s otherworldly. But, I have these little dogs…

Awww….

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