It happened that the week we found the right builder, plot and house design was the very same week Chris’s parents were visiting from England. The market moves fast out here, so we didn’t feel we could wait until after…
A Manic February
The last few weeks have been crazy. People say things like that all the time, but I really do feel like since we last posted anything, a fairly amazing amount of things have happened considered no travel was involved on…
The Hole in the Rock at Papago Park
After 2 failed attempts to make it up to the Hole in the Rock, we finally made it. This is not because it is especially difficult, but rather the first time we were on a bit of a schedule and…
A Day Out in the Desert with Chris’s Parents
On the weekend when Chris’s parents were here, we decided to take them out to see the desert. We started with what one could think of as desert-lite, Papago Park, a park that is in both Tempe and Phoenix that has…
Minor Differences: Changing Jobs
So, big news. Chris got a job. But you may being thinking, “didn’t he already have a full time job?” He did. He quit and got another one. This is something that felt more like a major difference from his…
Minor Differences: No Daylight Saving Time
A difference from anywhere else either of us have lived is that the majority of the state of Arizona does not observe daylight saving time (summer time in the UK). The rest of the US will be changing this weekend…
The Best of Our HiJenx Journey / And the Winner is…
The best beach of the journey was easily Panama City Beach, Florida: The best sunset was in Albuquerque, New Mexico: The best drive of the trip is a three way tie between driving down the Florida Keys: Driving down Florida’s Atlantic Coast from…
Day 111-113: Phoenix, Arizona – Supermoon Eclipse
Since we have really liked Arizona and it is basically head to head with Florida in the current runnings of where we want to live, we stayed yet another day. We caught up on editing and did still more swimming, but also…
Day 110: Phoenix, Arizona – Chicano Art and a Free Haircut
We checked out the recommendation of the lovely woman we met the night before. We saw a display of chicano art. Chicano is a fairly political word that was new to Chris, but familiar to me as someone who did…