Northern Arizona Family Visit 8.2023
- There seemed to be a plethora of fake eyelashes in North Phoenix this trip out.
- People were much more talkative in AZ. I missed my tacit NJ shopping trips where they know your sandwich order but aren’t big small talkers.
- Colorful Eddie Bauer-esque windbreakers with a back flap seemed to be popular especially among boomer men.
- WTF is up with the AZ earring prices this year, even copper; 40 bucks to turn my ear green? No, thank you.
- My fave western stores had less merch and exorbitant prices even compared to home.
- Maybe it’s generational as I speak with my non-smoker deep voice but I found that many women over 60 in the southwest speak with sweetly affected high voices.
- Some staffer seemed to be having fun at the Williams AZ library. Books prominently displayed next to each other were “Lock Hillary Up” and “Indict Trump Now”. It’s a mixed political bag here.
- Northern Arizona August Sunflowers/wildflowers are truly lovely. Even the afternoon monsoon weather sun/rain showers are beautiful; clearing almost as soon as they arrive. We still gasp on our annual canyon trip after all of these years.
- Night sleeping in northern Arizona is proof that God loves us, at least for the Gen x gal. I slept under the covers without a fan in the high 40s night temperature. What.
- This adage came out of my mouth often on this trip: Never pass up an opportunity to use the bathroom after 50.
- The Newark NJ passengers waiting to fly back home are a diverse crew. I love where we live.
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