Linda Naseem's Blog - Posts Tagged "phoenix"
Arizona...what???
To bring you up to date on my trip to Arizona (last weekend): the speaking parts (ASU & the Tucson Baha'i Center) went well.
The rest of the trip, not so...I forgot my cell phone. Now, I am not a cell phone person, it is not permanently attached to either my ear or my hand, but there are times when it is needed, and traveling to Arizona to stay with a friend, Saraiya, whose home I'd never been in, was. Because I couldn't find her. Had to ask a neighbor to call her number & got no answer. Had her call my friend's grandmother in Colorado Springs and left a message. And this lovely person waited with me, at least an hour, until Grandma called back & told me where I was supposed to go.
Ok, that was day 1. Day 2: I had to go to northern Arizona to pick up a wall-hanging that a Navajo friend of mine had woven for my daughter-in-law. I didn't realize how far it was: 391 miles from Tucson to Chambers. Except that when I got to our meeting point in Chambers she wasn't there. And she couldn't call me because...you know. I was given a note: Come to Gallup. Fifty miles further. i went, got the weaving, got some of her jewelry to sell, drove back to Phoenix.
Day 3: I went to the airport after my talk, content to sit & read until i boarded my plane. Except the plane was overbooked & i gave up my seat for $400 in travel vouchers, and got to my door at 2 am. And was greeted by a house full of cat puke. I mean, it was everywhere. He apparently ate the three days' supply of food i'd left in one sitting. going to have to find a new system.
So that was my Arizona adventure. i will be going back to Tucson in March, as part of the Tucson Festival of Books.
The rest of the trip, not so...I forgot my cell phone. Now, I am not a cell phone person, it is not permanently attached to either my ear or my hand, but there are times when it is needed, and traveling to Arizona to stay with a friend, Saraiya, whose home I'd never been in, was. Because I couldn't find her. Had to ask a neighbor to call her number & got no answer. Had her call my friend's grandmother in Colorado Springs and left a message. And this lovely person waited with me, at least an hour, until Grandma called back & told me where I was supposed to go.
Ok, that was day 1. Day 2: I had to go to northern Arizona to pick up a wall-hanging that a Navajo friend of mine had woven for my daughter-in-law. I didn't realize how far it was: 391 miles from Tucson to Chambers. Except that when I got to our meeting point in Chambers she wasn't there. And she couldn't call me because...you know. I was given a note: Come to Gallup. Fifty miles further. i went, got the weaving, got some of her jewelry to sell, drove back to Phoenix.
Day 3: I went to the airport after my talk, content to sit & read until i boarded my plane. Except the plane was overbooked & i gave up my seat for $400 in travel vouchers, and got to my door at 2 am. And was greeted by a house full of cat puke. I mean, it was everywhere. He apparently ate the three days' supply of food i'd left in one sitting. going to have to find a new system.
So that was my Arizona adventure. i will be going back to Tucson in March, as part of the Tucson Festival of Books.
