Wild West WiFi

Now that I have recovered from my long dry journey through the salt flats of DEATH VALLEY in flip flops with no water or sunscreen, I will tell you a little more about the last couple weeks. We are currently in Cameron, AZ just east of the Grand Canyon and are staying in a Navajo Nation hotel that actually has WiFi. Although we enjoyed hunkering down inside the van at night outside a business or standing behind the Motel 6 in the cold to get a connection, it's also nice to sit in a real bed with heat while checking your email. But no purchased connection has ever come close to "lolas motorhome" which has an astounding download rate of 4000 Kbps -  if you stood in the corner of the Quality Inn and RV Park Laundromat in Springdale, Utah. Besides spending significant time stealing WiFi, we've managed to see a great many amazing landscapes of the Western USA. And it really is phenomenal if you think about the diversity that you can cover in a just a few days. We've seen brown dirt, red dirt, orange dirt, green dirt, gray dirt and black dirt. And then there are ridges, mountains, hills, and mesas. We've driven to 9,000 ft and then to -300 ft - all within 2 hours! And you can see all of it - because there aren't any trees for hundreds and hundreds of miles.

People have been really nice as well - helping us unload our RV waste (that's really fun), filling our propane, giving us recommendations and directions. Maybe we're a bit of a novelty - two girls and a chihuahua in big brown van - but whatever. I do have to say that I have a new appreciation for RVers. For one, they are very nice - sometimes a little chatty but it's nice to talk to people after 5 months of talking only to Sarah. And now that we are crammed in that not so big van, I can see why one might buy an entire home on wheels. We're even a little jealous at times - all that space, a full kitchen, March Madness, not having to step on the couch to step onto the counter to crawl up to the bed. And they can be really creative too - like building a yard complete with a fence out of that green astro turf, cinder blocks and 2x4's in front of their RV door in the middle of an RV park behind a motel. That's really neat.

That's enough rambling for now. We're on to more of the southwest in search of cactus and another lola. And don't worry - we're safe with the help of our ferocious dog.