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Over the last three months, since the fire, I seem to do a lot of waiting. Waiting for the insurance company while waiting to get a replacement vehicle. Waiting to replace stuff lost in the fire. Waiting to see who bought what off my Amazon wish list. Thank you everyone. Waiting to return to the middle of nowhere Arizona.
Remote and distant from shopping, that I don’t like to do anyway. I’ve bought more stuff/junk from Amazon in the last month than in my entire life. And it seems I’m always waiting for some order, and frequently disappointed with the products. Description and reality are often not in agreement.
Even drove 1 1/2 hours to Yuma to finally buy a laptop. After too much time agonizing over which one to buy, my choice was not in stock. So I waited over a week for it to be shipped to an address in Quartzsite, only ten minutes from camp. Best Buy strung me along for two weeks with four different lies before admitting the model was out of stock, everywhere but China where ASUS comes from. Cancelled that order. After a super long day in town I spent the night just north of Yuma.
Give away
Throw away old high school art work
In the meantime, I worked on reducing the amount of stuff in the 5th-wheel, still making piles and packing boxes under the bed in my new wheeleastate.
Plus enjoyed several magical desert sunsets.
Waiting for the moon.
Attended a concert in the Quartzsite City Park and listened to awesome rock-n-roll music from our past, 1960s, 70s and 80s. Fun to imagine people in the crowd attending concerts in their past.
I waited two weeks for a refrigerator/freezer that will hold 7.5 cubic feet including space for ice cream. A big step up from 3.2 cubic feet and barely room for an ice cube tray. Sadly, it was never shipped as it was out of stock but Amazon strung me along. Cancelled that order. And enjoyed more sunsets.
Lots of awesome and friendly people clustered together in the desert. Friday nights there’s always happenings at the Lit Cactus located next door. Over 200 people gathered for a magnificent potluck Thanksgiving. No problem staying busy and lots of socializing. Almost like living a perpetual block party.
When it got too peoplee, I went away a few days further into the desert to recharge near the Kofa mountains.
Tried to shoot the moon with the new camera.
Seem to have better luck with sunsets.
How I love it out there in the middle of nowhere.
Returned to the La Posa South camp and my rig died. Better there next to Tim the mechanic than the middle of nowhere. Only waited a couple days for a fuel pump replaced and rolling again.
While waiting, I enjoyed campfire with friends.
And more sunsets.
Decided to omit the middleman and ordered a HP.com laptop. Even paid extra for priority two-day shipping. They got the address wrong and shipped it to someone in PA. More waiting. In fact, they wanted me to wait until the misdelivered order was returned before reshipping and I screamed NO. This time I only waited two business days for my 17” HP Envy laptop. Of course, I am still waiting to totally figure out Windows 11. (OMG, there’s an app for that!) This post was successfully completed on the laptop including photos processed in Lightroom.
Though I stay busy all day, I don’t mind waiting for more amazing desert sunsets.
