Today was Mark’s 69th birthday, so as has become a tradition for us, we went to Tombstone to celebrate!
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Tubac, AZ
This morning at 7:00 sharp, Mark and I were awakened by a trumpet playing Revelie. For a moment, Mark was confused until I reminded him that we are camping at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base.
Continue readingWeird weekend
Yesterday morning, while I was at work, Serenity texted me and said that Jose’s father in El Salvador had just passed. They knew he was dying of cancer, so it wasn’t exactly a surprise, but you’re never really prepared for something like that. It was because his father was dying that Serenity and Jose pushed their wedding date up to December. I picked up some flowers after work and took them over to Jose, and Mark had just gone into their trailer to give Jose his condolences. Jose showed us videos that his nephew has been taking of the funeral.
Continue readingR.I.P. Kimba, part 2
I got Dobby in 2005, right before my divorce. The next May, I met Mark who had a big dog named Dolly. She would dance with him in the kitchen! I graduated from library school at the end of 2006 and planned to go to Mexico to volunteer for a year, so Mark said he would take Dobby until I returned from Mexico. My stay in Mexico only lasted a few months before I got deathly ill and had to come back. The day after I returned, around Easter in 2007, Mark and I sat with Dolly while she was being euthanized. She had a tumor and he had to have her put down.
Continue readingMeeting Jose
Today, Mark and I drove up to Phoenix (Serenity had gone up earlier in the morning) to meet Jose and help him pick a suit for the wedding. When we got there, Serenity introduced the two men and they immediately went into the store without us women. I chalked it up to male bonding time!
Continue readingFrom Tucson; sorry for the delay!
We did manage to arrive in Tucson on Saturday afternoon. I was so excited to be getting close, I took lots of pictures and had to sort through them all yesterday, so I’m finally ready to report on what has been happening in the last few days!
Continue readingFrom Lordsburg, NM
When we checked out this morning, we went to a Mexican restaurant that had been recommended to us by a friend. The restaurant was called Silver Moon. Our friend said they have the best fried cheesecake she’s ever tasted. We didn’t order that.
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We’ve been through three states today: Oklahoma, Texas, and into New Mexico!
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Today was still cold, but we had better weather. The sun actually came out!
Continue readingFrom Sullivan, MO
What a day! It all started with a couple of inches of snow outside our window…
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