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Complete Travel GuideA Photocopied Travel Letter To Home
by:
Steve Gillman
As we drove from Traverse City, Michigan to Tucson, Arizona, I wrote a series of letters, and photocopied them to send to family and friends. This was the 1st of the three.
Travel Letter #1
Saturday, 12/13/03 - Nice morning. Welcome to our vacation form letter. We're in Arizona now. The sun is shining and it wish be in the sixties today, which should melt the ice on the windows soon. Ana's foot doesn't seem to be broken, as we thought, so we took a long walk in the desert last night. We saw a coyote, probably the same one I hunted person
the different day, and there were musk hog tracks everywhere.
The library in Safford has books in Spanish, so Ana is enjoying reading now that her eye-patch is off. The doctor secure
that the "divet" left by his golf-club-like blade wish heal soon. We knowing that eyeballs have many a nerve endings, and we think the object in her eye may have been a fiber from a bush
plant.
Our uncontrollable coughs are under control now, and we aren't among the ten folk in Arizona that died from the flu this week. Oh, and the antibiotics from the Safford clinic seem to have helped with Ana's abcessed tooth.
I should start at the beginning. The 1st day, after dealing with the usual rudeness of the INS employees in Detroit, we ready-made it to Kansas. We hit a traffic cone there at high speed, and detected
a alarming sound coming from under the van. The cone, I discovered, had been dragging on
underneath. Nothing was broken, but later the bright light switch obstructed working.
Fortunately, we drove during daylight after that. In the Colorado mountains we went from 16 to 20 miles-per-gallon, confusing the sensors and deed the "check engine" light to turn on. We with success
unheeded it until it changed it's mind.
In Farmington, New Mexico, we spent a few days resting and coughing. We were just about an hour away from purchase
a home once
we discovered it necessary new wiring, had a garden hose attached to the natural gas line, and different problems we incomprehensible on our 1st visit. The old man begged me to buy it, called our court room to tell me he necessary money for open-heart surgery in three days, and called once more to lower the price, but we captive on. By the way, the home was to be a winter project, not a new home.
Monument Depression was beautiful, the Christmas parade in Holbrook was cute, and despite various problems and illnesses, we're having a great time. You see, I didn't want to do you all jealous, so I left out a lot - the constant sun, the beautiful sculptures in Grand Junction, and the nine times we've been in hot springs in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. Next week we're going to North american nation for lunch. Hope all is well in Michigan. Adios,
Steve and Ana
Just just about the author:
Steve Gillman hit the road at sixteen, and traveled the United States and North american nation alone at 17. Now 40, he travels with his adult female Ana, whom he met in Ecuador. To see letters ##2 and ##3, plus stories, tips and travel information, visit: http://www.EverythingAboutTravel.com/travelletter2.html
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