{"id":29671,"date":"2020-03-09T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T20:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29671"},"modified":"2020-03-09T17:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T22:29:21","slug":"arizona-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=29671","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept up my French in Arizona for the past 11 days but given up blogging. I&#8217;m going to the blog today as I&#8217;ll be returning home tomorrow and my old ways. I&#8217;ve got to get back in practice and the headline here is what I&#8217;ll title the next Not Eudora column which I&#8217;ll be writing tomorrow on the plane.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m preparing for that column by sharing here a couple photos and thoughts about Arizona based on my trip. This is mostly to assure my eight loyal readers that I have not abandoned them. It would be a lovely time now to heap abuse on the big hands of our Commander-in-Chief with his botching of the corona virus epidemic; the historic fall in stocks and the getting-it-together of the fractious Democrats, but my critique would pale in comparison with others I&#8217;ve been reading. I will just share that my vote for Bernie or Joe will be ever more gladly cast next November from France where I&#8217;ll be soaking up French in situ.<\/p>\n<p>So a couple of photos from Arizona:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641345217_c14a9f9616.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1st day Bisbee, AZ &#8211; 11 mi. N of Mexico border. An arty town with a sense of humor about itself. 100 years ago the town fathers crammed a dozen box cars with union men and shipped them out of town at gun point warning them never to return. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641072246_425e9dba83_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2nd day, Tucson AZ, Saguaro NP Zoo A great zoo in the most bio diverse desert on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>3rd day, a wedding mixed Jewish\/Christian ceremony. The bride&#8217;s grandmother was talked out of marrying a Jewish gentleman about 70 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641353717_00848234bd_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4th day, Sedona, AZ, A picturesque Hollywood western town with kool bronze statues abounding. Here&#8217;s an old cowhand spellbinding children with western poppycock. Apropos First of three lovely nights. Some shopping, sight seeing and one helluva canyon tour in pink jeeps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49640559958_b376670830_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641080416_7126affb37_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641088321_e64e3fd3e2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49640569688_76afc8ff41_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Days 7-12, Bullhead City, AZ, first stop Oatman, AZ, western trinkets, gunfighters, donkey&#8217;s galore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641093446_b7fc4feb69_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49640573218_5c17635cc6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colorado River cruise courtesy of my Brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49640579783_f8faf19cda_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Domestic canid<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641103576_c0597c258c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not so domestic canid, &#8220;Wylie&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641381882_cc5808d2df_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Got a brief glimpse of his nemesis &#8220;Meep, Meep Roadrunner&#8221; that morning in a toney part of Bullhead City. No hard life on the banks of a river for him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49641109116_1efd35f00e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sign of human neglect in a nearby wash surrounded by the homes of Snowbirds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49640591733_1e45263938.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunset the night before the full &#8220;Worm Moon&#8221; of the local SW Indians when the worms come out of the winter soil<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49640590033_73be9ac47b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept up my French in Arizona for the past 11 days but given up blogging. 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