It is New Years day and I'm contemplating a blog which will just follow our journey. If there are issues to be addressed, so be it. Otherwise, if you elect to follow me, you may be bored with the everyday events of our nomadic life.
For example, we are currently at a desert boondocking area south of Quartzsite, AZ called LaPosa South. People pay $165 for a permit to camp here all winter. We're just visiting because our friends are here. Those who purchased permits are rather annoyed because the government shut down has denied them services for which they paid; especially water and dump. I don't know who's doing the work, but someone is keeping the dumpsters empty, the sewage tanks emptied and I think the water is still running. Living in our country's wilderness we get an up close and personal look at the damage Trump's shutdown is doing to the land. Being just a few miles from the border and doing business in Los Algodones, Mexico, as well as small US towns, we see the harm to business and tension it has created. Why would any person claiming to be so intelligent continue to hold the country hostage for a project that at least 50% or more of the people in the country strongly oppose?
We were going to have a New Year's luncheon al fresco with friends around us but it is really cold here. It never got up to the expected high of 53. The lunch ended up inside Nitsitapiisinni. (For those of you who do not know, Nitsitapiisinni is our name for our 20 ft trailer home and means 'our way of life' in the Blackfeet language.) We had eight of us around our little table. Sinni is only 160 sq ft. But we had fun and good fellowship.
None of us made it to midnight last night. In the desert you tend to go to bed and get up with the sun.
Looking at 2019, I must admit that I'm afraid of the future. I cannot ever remember a new year in my life when I was actually afraid of the future. People keep telling me to not give up hope. I honestly have to ask 'why?' When each day brings new atrocities, vulgarities and attacks on everything I love and no one, with the power, is doing anything to stop it, it is hard to have hope.
In my own personal journal I ranted for three pages, but it wasn't anything you haven't heard from me and millions of others time and again. I really want this blog page to have more positive than negative, so I'll not say anything more. Perhaps over the coming months I can find things which will give me hope.
We are going to move tomorrow so that we will be closer to Los Algodones. I'm looking forward to getting my dental work finished which we started last year. That's sure an upper!
Happy New Year. Hope you will find my new approach interesting.
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