Perhaps!

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA by the numbers. In 15 days:
drove 3,403 miles across 5 states;
visited 1 Nat'l Monument, 1 Tribal Monument, 1 Tribal Park, & 4 Nat'l Parks in 3 states;
& visited w 6 friends, 5 family members, & 1 almost-college-roommate in 2 states.
#Awesome

Collage of 6 photographs of Mesa Verde National Park on Colorado

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 12, Mesa Verde National Park CO

Collage of 6 photos from Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 11, Great Sand Dunes National Park CO

4 photos from Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 9, Rocky Mountain National Park CO

ok, 3 now. cc @peanutbutterbear.bsky.social

So-called vertical fissures

The Painted Wall

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 7, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park CO

West Mitten, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park AZ

East Mitten, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park AZ

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 6, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park AZ

Only 2 so far.

Sign declaiming uranium mining on Navajo land

Solitary monument outside the Park, with wispy clouds against a lovely blue sky

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 5, Phoenix AZ to Monument Valley National Tribal Park AZ

Interior of Changing Hands Bookstore, Phoenix AZ

Nespresso machine in my room at the Scott Hotel & Resort, Scottsdale AZ (they know me so well)

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 4, Phoenix AZ [Busman's Holiday II]

Bookman's River Entertainment Exchange, Tucson AZ

Picacho Peak, I-10 North between Tucson & Phoenix AZ [taken from a car moving @ 75mph]

Book Gallery, Phoenix AZ [upgraded my copy of De Quincey's 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater,' my 1st purchase thus far]

#Southwest #USA #RoadTrip Day 3, Tucson to Phoenix [Busman's Holiday I]

Entrance to Chiricahua National Monument, Willcox AZ

Cochise Head, Chiricahua National Monument, Willcox AZ

#Southwest #USA #RoadTrip Day 2

I'll say! Where?

The view from my room in The Lodge on the Desert.

The Santa Catalina Mountains.

#RoadTrip Day 1: Tucson AZ.

Gearing up for my first solo road trip following the loss of my darling wife by listening to the 50th Anniversary boxset ed. of 'Bongo Fury' by @frankzappa.bsky.social, Captain Beefheart, and the Mothers. As one does. #Music

Afternoon, Gentle Men. I'm having a Buddy Guy moment at the moment.

R.I.P. Sam Kieth, co-creator of The Sandman comic. Fantastic artist, taken too young (63). #Comics

#BOOKS Just finished 'Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group' (TangerinePress 2025) by Rebecca Gransden. Very literate horror novel, beautifully executed. Currently short-listed for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize, deservedly. #READING

I'll hunt it up. Thx. You good?

So, I got a notice today addressed to my late wife from the SD Country Registrar of Voters telling her that her "registration record is scheduled to be cancelled ... due to ... [her] ineligibility to vote ... due to ... death ..." Yep, that'll do it.

#Music R.I.P. John Hammond, Jr. What a distinguished career and lineage.

Well, this weekend I received my late wife's death certificate. I guess it hasn't all been just a bad dream. 💔

R.I.P. Eliane Radigue. Your influence on #Music, especially electronic #Music, is incalculable.

Nice. My wife would have loved that!

#Books Finished #reading 'Whitefoot' (Counterpoint, 2009), a children's book (illustrated) I found on my late darling wife's night table while ridding our bedroom of the death juju. This from that: "That one lives at the center of the world is the world's profoundest thought."

Related to Dewey Cheatham and Howe.

Wow. @misterquartet.bsky.social Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2026 Vol 04 was fabulous. And plus also too, Mr. Blue used the expression "jiggery pokery"!

@misterquartet.bsky.social Thanks for all the classical music on vol. 04. Very nice.

Thank you, Peter. No one deserved the brutality of the last 17 months, least of all my luminous Sherri. 💔