Back from our three-night trip to Mt. Lemmon, specifically the Mt. Lemmon Lodge in Summerhaven. Driving up the mountain this year brought the trip of thunderstorms that had descended on the Tucson area on Thursday afternoon. It was a new experience to drive up the mountain with darkened rain cloods. We got rain overnight---a downpour that woke me from my sleep.
The next day, Friday, was the Fourth of July and the main activity was watching the parade at noon. Our room on the third floor of the lodge was pretty much the idea place to see it, if you were not down on the road. I took videos of the parade with iphone, both from the balcony and the road, which I played on my podcast that evening, sharing them with my viewers, because I had not much else prepared.
I had to do my podcast from down on the lodge patio balcony, with people at tables nearby. The wifi in our room on the third floor was terrible. I could barely get any connectivity on my phone using my data plan, and the wi-fi was hopeless. It was actually nice to have a break from connectivity. I managed to read the entire intro to Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings, which I had brought at the last minute as leisure reading, taking it off Stack U of my newly designed alphabetized stacking system for my book in the ga
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